09 February 2021
Norfolk company targets suborbital market
..., and in turn this leads to lower levels of space debris.” Raptor believes that the provision of short duration space access will enable commercial space companies to de-risk components, increase technology readiness levels, demonstrate technology...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...policy and planning. Elon Musk has famously made no secret that his space company SpaceX has the goal of sending a crewed rocket to Mars in ...Bezos, for example, has poured money into his own space company, Blue Origin. Balancing act We are now at the ...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... industries such as energy, agriculture, retail, transport, internet/connectivity, etc. NewSpace companies are planning to pick up the buck where traditional space companies have flattened in technology and growth. There is, for example, a whole new...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... a low power consumption but with adequate performance, constraints that most currently available systems from large space companies cannot meet. This has resulted in a strong market need in recent years for the creation of a number...
August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
... industry will have the chance to reap the benefits of breakthrough growth. The cost and timelines of investible space companies today are approaching the parameters that are familiar to traditional investment cycles. The industry is at a point...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...grants than equity investments by a government investment fund. If the government’s goal is to make more funds available for space companies, as has been the case in several countries that do not have a strong private VC community, this support could...
