Secondly, the satellite industry has experienced a trend of private investment fund acquisitions. Five of six major fixed and mobile satellite service providers in the world have been partly or entirely sold to
which can be harder to quantify in financial terms. Other long-term projects with less clear returns on investment, like deep space probes, might also get short shrift. There are also concerns that for-profit business models seeking to maximize value as quickly as possible could end upprioritizi...
challenges and disputes, and the need to construct a sustainable legal architecture for Earth’s investment in space. That will likely be based on a foundation of venerable international treaties from the 1960s. The U.S. has led the way with the ...
"Richard had been looking for an investment in space and, I think, hadn't found it until the X Prize happened," Whitesides said. "While I think the brand Virgin Galactic had been registered before the X Prize, the substance of the company was essentially formulated by the success of the...
Those trips include US Congressman Bill Nelson's January 1986 flight on the Space Shuttle Columbia and Japanese television reporter Toyohiro Akiyama's 1990 flight to the Mir Space Station.The Ansari X PRIZE was intended to stimulate private investment in the development of spaceflight technologies. ...
The investment minimums are $2,500 for the Class A Share and Class L Share, and $1,000,000 for the Institutional Share Investment in the Fund involves substantial risk. The Fund is not suitable for investors who cannot bear the risk of loss of all or part of their investment. The Fund...
The Chinese government opened up the country's space sector to private investment in 2014. And numerous aerospace startups were founded shortly afterwards. Smotor Aerospace Innovation was founded in 2017. Wu Gang, founder and CEO of the space startup, told CGTN that unlike i-Space, S...
The government is widely expected to open the doors to foreign investment in the sector this year. ISRO will focus on exploration and new science, while three different bodies - the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), NewSpace India Limite...
Earlier this month, another memorandum was inked between Bigelow Aerospace and Space Florida, a group created to strengthen Florida’s position in aerospace research, investment, exploration and commerce. That deal is focused on pursuing and identifying foreign and domestic companies ...
Under the next President, America’s Space Shuttles were retired, leaving NASA with no other choice but to look for alternative methods of supplying the ISS. The initiative was part of an effort to commercialise the space industry in order to decrease costs and spread the investment in the ...