July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... to develop long range missiles as delivery vehicles for their nuclear bombs. There was no civilian Soviet space programme as such. Each space funding decision was made on the grounds of priorities at that moment in time, and those priorities could...
01 October 2020
UK to launch new international space collaborations
Through the Government’s new domestic space fund, the National Space Innovation Programme, the UK Space Agency will fund innovative technologies and services to support UK trade, science, and security with major space players like Australia, France,...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
..., science and technology, and space exploration) to stabilise space funding (the Australian Space Research Programme concluded in 2013, which means that government funding for space currently equals zero, with no funding committed in the foreseeable...
17 May 2021
Chinese sector continues world-leading post-covid rebound
Following a record year for commercial space funding in China - and with 2021 showing further... have each benefitted from nearly 20 percent of total funding. Editor’s note: Euroconsult's China Space Industry Q1 2021 report is available now and can ...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... a successful finance ecosystem will emerge. Kickstarter is perhaps the best known of the crowdfunding platforms hosting space funding campaigns, including the Planetary Society’s LightSail project. However, the sums involved are currently still too...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... to contain the pandemic spread, catalysed by the rise of NewSpace, which emerged out of technological progress, space funding growth, globalisation and digitalisation. NewSpace induced private actors to develop breakthrough technologies that reduced...
