Focus: NewSpace
August 3, 2020
Aravind Ravichandran is a Senior Strategy Consultant at PwC’s space practice, and a self-proclaimed Earth Observation (EO) data aficionado with a passion for blockchain. He sees EO as just another source of data, available and ready to be unlocked. In addition, blockchain technology can be useful when applied to EO data. As a former software…
July 30, 2020
United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched NASA’s Perseverance rover on Thursday, marking the culmination of years of work by thousands of people since the project was announced in 2012. A ULA Atlas V 541 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex-41 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday at 7:50 a.m. EST. Spacecraft separation…
July 28, 2020
Virgin Galactic unveiled the design of VSS Unity cabin on Tuesday in a virtual event, sharing images of what its commercial passenger space flight experience will look like. The six seats are individually sized, and recline for G-force management, and to allow more room to float about the cabin when the flight reaches zero gravity.…
July 24, 2020
Though it would be a challenge, it was evident that OneWeb’s project was groundbreaking. The company aimed to disrupt the space industry with its large satellite constellation – and that it did. OneWeb set a precedent that large players such as SpaceX, Telesat, and Amazon only followed. From early on in its journey, U.K. regulators,…