18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
...) - where data from the Galileo satellite system is received - and ESA-SBIC, Europe's first centre for space start-ups. Some 80 percent of the space activities in the Netherlands take place in this area known as South Holland. The...
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...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
...develop interoperable standards and procedures, define new space traffic management guidelines together with institutions and ... a lack of heritage, a surreal ‘Catch-22’ that all space start-ups must go through. In the case of satellite servicing, it...
