February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... its engineers will be able to produce up to 40 satellites a week. In this context, funding will become increasingly difficult for space start-ups unless they are able to provide some kind of ‘insurance’ for investors, to provide a safe exit from the...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... investments between 2000 and 2015. In 2015, a record US$2.3 billion was spent on more than 50 investments in space start-ups in the US. Pleiades image iof the Silicon valley. Investments by business angels, venture capitalists or major industrial...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
...2000s, the Russian economy came back to life and private space start-ups started to gain ground in the West. It wasn’t long ...them. The Skolkovo era Things began looking up for Russian space start-ups by the end of the first decade of the new century...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
...,” said Rick Tumlinson, founding partner of SpaceFund, a venture capital firm focused on investing in frontier-enabling space start-ups. “Security tokens will be able to decouple project timelines from investor returns by giving investors the ability...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... orbit (I’ve heard numerous people say that debris mitigation was the next buzz-word to arouse investors in space start-ups), and how to cope with what experts have recently said is the ‘absolute inevitability’ of military conflict moving...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
.... The regulatory burden that the OSA imposes upon (especially but not exclusively) small space start-ups is considerable and has been extensively criticised as disproportionately disadvantaging UK manufacturing. In a consultation document on CubeSats...
