Emergent Space Technologies; Space 2.0 Blog | 8C Chamber of Commerce

By 8 C Project, Posted 07/23/09

Link: http://8cproject.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/8c-chamber-profile-emergent/

Emergent Space Technologies , a  founding  member of the 8th Continent Chamber of Commerce, is positioned to be a big player in space’s entrepreneurial evolution.  They recently teamed with the University of Texas at Austin to develop a picosat capable of performing an automated rendezvous and docking mission.  Emergent has engineered picosats to be quick and inexpensive. What used to take years now, because of their software, can take as little as 12 months from concept to launch.  They call this the Space 2.0 approach that ultimately shrinks the space industry down and makes it entrepreneurial. It’s not that farfetched to think that someday soon someone in a garage could make and launch their own satellite.