#space-market — Public Fediverse posts

One of the biggest impediments 🕵️ to reform was #BillNelson, the former #US senator from #Florida who represented #KennedySpaceCenter and now runs #NASA.

It was #Nelson who “led the opposition” to the #Commercial Crew Program https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/21/get-your-boy-elon-in-line-nasa-tell-all-recounts-turmoil-over-private-space-race-00041085

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#LaunchCost #SpacePolitics #SpaceMarket

#Solestial’s solar panels can be produced at scale using automated production methods at 90 percent 📉 lower cost 💵 than #SolarPanels widely used by today’s #satellite 🛰️ industry. This technology optimized for #space 🌌, also delivers orbital reliability of at least 10 years in low Earth orbit (#LEO). Economical solar panels with scalable manufacturing capability are critical to meeting the demand of the #satellite industry, which is projected to grow 📈 from 5,000 operational satellites to 100,000 or more by 📆 2030 https://www.aeroequity.com/aei-horizonx-invests-in-solestial-as-part-of-its-oversubscribed-10m-seed-round/

#SBSP #SpaceCompany #SpaceMarket

#SCMP 📆 12 Nov, 2023 The world’s biggest producer of #iPhones 📱 is going to #OuterSpace. Two prototype #LEO satellites 🛰️ took off aboard a #SpaceX rocket 🚀 from Vandenberg on Saturday. #Taiwan 🇹🇼 is working on a plan to launch its first LEO communication #satellite 🛰️, part of a strategy to develop #SpaceBased alternatives to the undersea cables that provide most of the island’s #internet connections 📶. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3241251/apple-supplier-foxconns-satellites-hitch-ride-elon-musks-spacex-search-new-revenue-orbit

#Foxconn #SatelliteCommunication #SpaceCompany #SpaceMarket

📆 October 18, 2023 Steve Jurvetson, an early investor in #SpaceX and #Planet, claimed that many #investors* in #startups working on small #LaunchVehicles were unaware of the scope of competition, many thinking there were no more than 10 other companies in the field. https://spacenews.com/small-launch-companies-struggle-to-complete-with-spacex-rideshare-missions/

#LaunchVehicle 🚀 manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies#Launch_vehicle_manufacturers

4️⃣4️⃣ #aerospace companies producing #rockets 🚀 in #OpenStreetMap 🗺️ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aerospace%3Aproduct=rocket

Cargo 📦 Transportation & Landers https://www.factoriesinspace.com/cargo-transportation

* 📊 422 investors invested $8 billion 💰 in 123 start-up #SpaceCompanies in 📆 2022 https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/Bryce_Start_Up_Space_2023.pdf

#SpaceCompany #SpaceMarket

Eighty-two percent of senior executives in Deloitte’s 📆 2023 #space survey said that innovation in the #SpaceMarket is a priority for their organization. #SmallSats 🛰️ accounted for about 95% 📊 of #spacecraft launched in 2022. As of 2022, the global #SpaceSector had attracted private equity investments of about US$272 billion 💰 into 1,791 unique companies since 2013 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/aerospace-defense/future-of-space-economy.html

#InSpaceManufacturing #AdditiveManufacturing #SpaceRobot #SpaceSustainability #SpaceCompany

#ESA 📆 2011 The #European 🇪🇺 #SpaceMarket arguably lacks essential ingredients of a free, #competition-driven, #commercial market and thus also some #innovation-stimulating effects of these: activities of the monopsonist are highly regulated by free-market #distorting rules.
“#Innovation is the renewal and enlargement of the range of products and services and the associated markets; the establishment of #new methods of production, supply and distribution; the introduction of #changes in #management, work #organisation, and the working conditions and skills of the workforce.
The #SpaceSector as a whole as well as its #major actors experience difficulties preparing for #disruptive or #radical innovation, partly due to the successes enabled by incremental, sustaining innovation. However, based on analysis methods of free market, #signs 👀 of potentially #disruptive #innovation in the space sector are appearing." https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/CMS/pub/ACT-RPR-1011%20Early%20Signs%20of%20Potentially%20Disruptive%20Innovation%20in%20the%20Space%20Sector%20summerer.pdf

#ESA 📆 2023 😴⏰😱

#SpacePolitics

📆 January 9, 2023 #SpaceEconomy report finds that the #SpaceMarket grew 8% 📈. #SpaceSector at $70B 💰 in 2022, expected to grow to $100B in 📆 2031 https://payloadspace.com/euroconsult-2022-space-economy/

#Copernicus plays an important role in the European #EO #spacemarket.

It offers open data in the form of high-resolution imagery which opens door to multiple opportunities for European space companies 🌠🌔

👉 Read the article for details: https://bit.ly/3vXyXuJ

#EUOpenData

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_opendata/status/1614985877549387776