November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...grants than equity investments by a government investment fund. If the government’s goal is to make more funds available for space companies, as has been the case in several countries that do not have a strong private VC community, this support could...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... reliability for end-of-life deorbiting, unless expensive, complicated workarounds are implemented. All this means that space companies are losing capabilities by using these new fuels, instead of gaining them. Propulsion systems are leading the...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... interfaces, functionality and quality are key. Additionally, teaming arrangements and collaborative partnerships are critical for space companies wishing to maximise innovation and speed-to-deployment of their newest solutions. Collaborations allow...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... and third in the world – to achieve orbit. Although we do not hear much about Chinese space activities in the US and Europe, Chinese space companies have been active in developing markets. Emerging leaders will likely expand to compete globally with...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... satellites before launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. The shift between ecosystems is well illustrated by plotting the number of emerging space companies, which shows a near-exponential growth over the last two decades [see above figure]. This growth...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...-up founded in 2015. Ultimately, the latter half of the 2010s created a large and growing ecosystem of Chinese commercial space companies, many of which had raised generous sums from VCs. Meanwhile, others were actually earning revenues in a number...
