February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... critical path. US businessman Robert Bigelow, owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and founder of commercial space company Bigelow Aerospace. Most of these projects have high commercial potential yet may also benefit from government...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... enough to change the legal and economic environment if we do not change the way that national space companies look at the space sector. The space industry is not static. It is moving from a sector where the Government was the main institution...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
..., CGI has an aerospace branch, so I’m now trying to convince management to initiate partnerships with the major commercial space companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. A weightless environment would be perfect for me to live and work...
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...
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...
