June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... satellites before launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. The shift between ecosystems is well illustrated by plotting the number of emerging space companies, which shows a near-exponential growth over the last two decades [see above figure]. This growth...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...-up founded in 2015. Ultimately, the latter half of the 2010s created a large and growing ecosystem of Chinese commercial space companies, many of which had raised generous sums from VCs. Meanwhile, others were actually earning revenues in a number...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... we’ve been working on for a while now is international partnerships and relationships We’re seeing more investment going into space companies from the private sector, because they see such a value in the future of low Earth orbit commercialisation...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... cool again” headlined by CNBC in July 2020. Again, looking to the future, company noise, in particular earned media, will continue to differentiate space companies by communicating organisational reputation and place within the ecosystem. Future...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... are building every day Our constellation is so robust that we pioneered a new Space-as-a-Service offering, where we enable any company to be a space company by taking ‘space’ out of the equation. We leverage our fully deployed infrastructure to help...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... volatility, in particular for communications and climate. Going public via SPAC in 2022 will be more challenging for space companies, but we expect this market to remain open for emerging category leaders that have demonstrated solid commercial...