This Buzzfeed story, “Blanked Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps,” came out last week. Let’s clarify this in...
Research/Development, Baidu Maps’ Curious Grey Tiles, and Planet
Month: August 2020
India, the Pandemic, European Entrepreneurs
India's ISRO provides the reason for no 2020 launches so far, and where exactly are the European entrepreneurs for space?
Commercial Space Growth–Venture Capital Driven
By all accounts, the U.S commercial space industry is growing. Is the growth originating with...
Government Space Budgets=Industry Priorities (Where’s Commercial?)
And last week one possible space industry player, the Department of Commerce (DoC), just received a small boost from a...
Reusability, Waste, and Leverage
While the rivalry among industry competitors is entertaining to watch, some episodes during a competition can get downright...
Commercial Smallsat Industry / Government Needs
It may be useful to review some U.S. space industry history and remind ourselves of what niche small satellite...
Rocket Lab’s Electron Upgrades and Government Contract Aims
Rocket Lab announced a few weeks ago that its teams have managed to increase the mass its Electron rocket can lift. The Electron was...
Planet’s Annual Growth, SkySats, and Dependence Tendencies
Planet delivered the upbeat fact there was a “...100 percent year-over-year growth across all...
Rideshare Announcements from NASA and Glavkosmos in Focus
Last week, two space organizations from different nations posted press releases describing their offerings of...
EO Business Models/Government Influence On EO Startups
When discussing the Earth observation (EO) satellite business, there are the publicized plans/goals space startups...
Space Industry Analysis | Ill-Defined Space 