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Space continues to provide a rich innovation ecosystem for commercially-relevant technologies because of the extraordinary challenges involved in exiting Earth, exploring the cosmos, inhabiting planets, and returning to our home planet.
We Need Cheaper Access to Space: Can It Be Done?
Future Outposts Beyond LEO Require R&D Now
"Planetary Skin" & Commercial Space: Shared Opportunities & Challenges
The new public-private R&D collaboration between Cisco and NASA called “Planetary Skin”, and the emerging commercial space community share some similar challenges. They both confront major technical hurdles as they pursue their goals and also share major people and organizational challenges and the need to develop strong stakeholder communities, with good public support.
Lessons from Turkey for Global Commercial Space
I was a presenter/panelist for a Turkish-American Business Conference on facilitation of bi-lateral business development, and profiled a joint CubeSat project ready for launch. Turkey wants to expand its capabilities in science, technology and innovation to produce new high-tech products. Options were identified to support bi-lateral collaboration relevant to commercial space.







