NewSpace
SAIC increases space startup collaboration
Josh Jackson, executive vice president and general manager of SAIC’s Solutions and Technology Group, said SAIC is working with around a dozen startups through accelerators in Austin, Texas and Colorado Springs, Colorado, to make their technology more available to U.S. government customers.
European Commission, fearing brain drain to US, takes sharper look at space investment strategy
Commissioners speaking this week at the Conference on European Space Policy in Brussels said the continued reservations of European investors about financing space startups is hampering Europe’s ability to keep pace with similar startup activity in the United States.
Op-ed | The revolution that is commercial space is just beginning
While everybody is rightly celebrating recent successes in commercial space, some long-term trends are just beginning. It is still early days, and significant growth and new opportunities are just around the corner.
A trillion-dollar space industry will require new markets
Forecasts that predict the space industry to grow to a trillion dollars by the 2040s will require the development of new markets, even with the modest annual growth rates needed to achieve that goal.
Analysis | The rise of China’s private space industry
The space race of old was between governments, but we may be on the brink of a 21st century private space race on an international scale.
Op-ed | NewSpace 2.0: Moving beyond the Minimum Viable Product
Owing partly to the emergence of small satellites, NewSpace startups are disrupting commercial space by addressing these and other questions on shoestring budgets compared to government programs.
CNES creating a space startup fund
The French space agency CNES is creating an investment fund of 80 to 100 million euros ($95 to $119 million) to spur innovation in the space sector.
Op-ed | Thinking historically about NewSpace
As the business of space becomes increasingly privatized, and companies more frequently adopt a fast and lean entrepreneurial style, it complicates efforts to establish and preserve a publicly accessible record of the industry’s progress.
