Market Analysis: Websites
Space Flight Laboratory | Univ. of Toronto Instit. for Aerospace Studies
This university-based organization that's "building Canada's future in space" developes small satellites and flight payloads for a wide range of space research applications. They also utilize graduate students in their endeavors, help arrange university-developed payload launches, and provide hands-on training.
"Meet the Entrepreneurs" of the Commercial Human Spaceflight Industry | CSF
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is the industry association site for the commercial human spaceflight industry which now includes about 20 companies. Each of the CEOs of these companies are profiled on this section of their site.
Calendar & Review of Commercial Space Events | Commercial Space Wiki
This links to a regularly-updated list of online event info relevant to commercial space. It also includes special annual overviews of this market by Clark Lindsey of HobbySpace.com.
"The Space Show" hosted by: Dr. David Livingston
Dr. David Livingston is a business consultant, financial advisor, and strategic planner as well as interview host and creator of the pioneering space commerce-focused online production, “The Space Show”. Livingston is an accomplished personal speaker, writer and consultant in the area of future space exploration. He has lectured extensively on the topics of: business ethics and corporate responsibility for off-Earth business ventures and New Space Industries, and has written a Code of Ethics for Off-Earth Commerce. He frequently lectures on venture capital financing for new space businesses, RLVs and space tourism, effective business planning, and developing solutions to the barriers to space enterprise.
Livingston has also served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business at Golden Gate University teaching Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. He earned his BA from the University of Arizona, an MBA in International Business Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and his doctorate in business administration (DBA) at Golden Gate. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Outer Space Commerce: Its History and Prospects”.
HobbySpace - Home
This pioneering site links space endeavors to broad public interests. Increasingly, its profiling of “alt-space” goals and progress is blazing a trail in that area too. Lindsey’s “Tenants” below provide the best window into his motivations.
“HobbySpace Tenants: * The development of space will only be successful when the general public becomes directly involved. * Incremental, step-by-small-step development can achieve permanent human settlement. * Private, commercial entrepreneurial enterprises can make most of these steps. * Small, niche markets can be sufficient to support those companies.”
Commerce News | SpaceRef - space news as it happens
Cowing maintains a large repository of news items related to commercial space at this site and at http://www.comspacewatch.com. This site includes mission press releases and status updates, all in date order. Cowing maintains the “home port” for news along with pithy commentary and new insights on many content items.
Commercial Space Wiki
This wiki site is managed by Ken Davidian who has a professional government-based focus on the NewSpace/entrepreneurial space market including several commercial space activities he supported associated with NASA, his former employer. He brings special value to this site because he is now working as the Encourage, Facilitate & Promote Lead in the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation. He is thus associated with FAA oversight and facilitation of the emerging suborbital personal spaceflight market. He is also aligned with an informal AIAA-based Commercial Space Group who are advocates for this market and he is linked to several student groups working in this area, as well. Davidian does an audio walkthrough of this site during an interview with David Livingston of The Space Show.
Space Energy Inc., a space-based solar power company
Profile of a new global company dedicated to the development of space-based solar power. The site contains a “QuickReport” area that holds many background papers and reports on this topic. Also note their TEDx presentation by Peter Sage, their communications and marketing lead on the home page.
Odyssey Moon Limited
“Odyssey Moon Ventures”: http://www.odysseymoon.com is a U.S.-based company that includes former NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Jay Honeycutt as President, and Robert Richards, co-founder of the International Space University as founder-CEO. Odyssey Moon Ventures coordinates all the company’s U.S. programs and commercial launch operations, including the development and commercialization of innovative technologies for frequent, low cost and reliable access to the Moon. Odyssey Moon is part of an innovative multi-national partnership of aerospace, financial, science, education, legal and policy entities offering unique commercial lunar business services and products for humanity’s permanent return to the Moon.