March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... big data and business intelligence sector. Looking at the evolution of space companies, we can clearly differentiate Incumbent Companies and NewSpace Companies. Incumbent companies are mainly large multi-national organisations which have been backed...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
..., initiated by the UK Government of the time and involving most of the major space companies and space research institutes, took an in-depth look at the potential for UK Space over the following two decades. Fresh from the economic shocks of 2008...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... critical path. US businessman Robert Bigelow, owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and founder of commercial space company Bigelow Aerospace. Most of these projects have high commercial potential yet may also benefit from government...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, is building a small launcher comparable to those of Rocket Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run by a Japanese entrepreneur, is planning to develop debris-monitoring satellites and...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... play. It is by no means certain that regulators would impose environmental restrictions on a powerful and lucrative private space company that might endanger the profitability of its mission. It seems that the law, on this occasion, would certainly...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... enough to change the legal and economic environment if we do not change the way that national space companies look at the space sector. The space industry is not static. It is moving from a sector where the Government was the main institution...
