Posts Tagged ‘space’
Pentagon Nominates Domain Awareness Expert to Lead Space Force
One of the U.S. military’s top experts in space domain awareness has been nominated to become the Pentagon’s second Chief of Space Operations. Lt. Gen. Chance “Salty” Saltzman was nominated Thursday to take the space service’s top job. If his promotion is confirmed by the Senate, Saltzman will have rocketed in three years from wearing a single star to pinning four to his uniform.
Read MoreQuilty Analytics: Space Market Transactions Cool During 2022’s 1st Quarter
After a torrent of transaction activity during 2021, the first quarter of 2022 saw a downshift in announced deal volumes. In Q1 22, there were six space-related acquisitions and buyouts, 41 private equity and venture equity financings totaling approximately $1.5 billion in funds raised, and three public equity financings, inclusive of two pending de-SPACs, totaling…
Read MoreU.S. Joins Allies in Space Operations ‘Vision’
By Tom Roeder troeder@spacefoundation.org A shared space operations vision accord now binds the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia and New Zealand, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The Combined Space Operations Vision 2031 accord commits the seven nations to a code of conduct in space, including a mission to “generate and improve cooperation, coordination,…
Read MoreState of Space 2022: Industry Enters ‘Era of Access and Opportunity’
By Tom Roeder troeder@spacefoundation.org The space industry has entered what Space Foundation CEO retired Navy Rear Adm. Tom Zelibor dubbed “the era of access and opportunity,” during an annual “State of Space” presentation this month on the foundation’s Symposium 365 online platform. Zelibor was joined by several industry leaders during the presentation, highlighting how satellites…
Read MoreJapanese Billionaire Caps Record Space Tourism Year
By Tom Roeder troeder@SpaceFoundation.org The first self-funded space tourist to reach the International Space Station in more than a decade reached his destination aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule Wednesday. Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa paid $88 million for the ride, the BBC reported, and was accompanied on the trip by documentary filmmaker Yozo Hirano. Their…
Read MoreGlobal Space Economy Grows in 2019 to $423.8 Billion, The Space Report 2020 Q2 Analysis Shows
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 28, 2020) — The global space economy in 2019 grew more than $9 billion over the previous year, reaching $423.8 billion, according to new findings published by Space Foundation’s 2020 second quarter issue of The Space Report. The growth represents a 2.2% increase from the 2018 global space economy, which was…
Read More2019 Space Employment Hit 8-Year High, Launch Activity Reached Decade Growth of 39%, Research from The Space Report 2020 Q1 Analysis Shows
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 31, 2020) — Across multiple fronts, the space industry heading into 2020 was the strongest in years, with gains in space industry jobs, new nations entering space, and record-level research and investor activity through International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory programs. Those are among the new findings in The Space Report…
Read MoreIndustry Insight: Space Jobs of the Future
Courtney Stadd spent more than 35 years helping draft and implement federal policies and regulations to spur the growth of commercial space. Today, he is widely consulted within the industry. The article below was originally published in The Space Report Quarter Three in October. The views presented herein are those of the individual author and do…
Read MoreAntares NG-12 Resupply Mission Launches on 19th Anniversary of Space Station Inhabitation
THE SPACE FOUNDATION WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia (Nov. 2, 2019) — Under a piercing blue sky and the shelter of a bright white tent Saturday, Terry Feehan had one question for the crowd before him: “Are you ready to RUMBLE?” The question took on an entirely different connotation coming from Feehan, a retired Air Force major…
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