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...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, is building a small launcher comparable to those of Rocket Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run by a Japanese entrepreneur, is planning to develop debris-monitoring satellites and...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... satellite systems around the world. More recently, he has provided business development support for a number of smaller space companies seeking to grow their businesses. His latest role, with Infinite Orbits, involves both technical and business...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... play. It is by no means certain that regulators would impose environmental restrictions on a powerful and lucrative private space company that might endanger the profitability of its mission. It seems that the law, on this occasion, would certainly...
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...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...the southeast corner of the UK. In addition, this mostly belongs to specific space companies (apart from the National Space Test Facility at Harwell, operated by RAL Space). There is a need for the development of manufacturing capacity to support the...
