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Frontier Focus Newsletter

Your Comprehensive Guide to the New Space Economy

G. Pettit here, 

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Frontier Focus Newsletter, your top source for political, economic, and social developments in the New Space Economy and other emerging markets.

From breaking industry news and event announcements, to labor market reports and financial analysis, the glorious future has never been closer, nor a more entertaining read! Our mission is to collect and distill only the most newsworthy, exciting, and inspirational info for your weekly updates on the Second Space Age.

Join us on this journey into new frontiers.

This Week’s Next-Gen Newsflash

🚀 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claims that Starship could be ready for a Mars landing in as little as 3-4 years

🌎 Remember that big Ozone hole everyone was so afraid about? Turns out it’s still around, and even bigger than you last checked

☄️ In case you haven’t heard, NASA has revealed its new unboxing video of samples taken from planet-killer asteroid Bennu

State of the New Space Economy

1) Virgin Voyage: Virgin Galactic has recently completed its 4th commercial suborbital spaceflight, carrying with them the first Pakistani citizen to go to space.

Hot off the heels of their third commercial spaceflight in early September, Virgin Galactic is maintaining its goal of launching at least one new batch of customers every month. And since some customers have been waiting since as early as 2004, like Galactic 04 passenger Ron Rosano, this cadence is sure to be a satisfying one.

The company claims a backlog of approximately 800 customers, and with 3-4 per launch, it could take years to chip that list down, unless the company were to build more spaceports and more Spaceships. No matter the length, it’s clear that the time for the long-promised future of space tourism is now.

2) Europe’s Next Generation Rocket: Ariane 6, the long-awaited non-reusable heavy rocket developed by french-Germane Arianespace, will be releasing an assessment on the rocket’s readiness to fly after several rounds of hotfire testing.

Having suffered significant delays on top of obsoletion risks by the rapid ride of fully reusable rocketry, Ariane 6 is intended to be Europe’s next generation rocket, despite being fully expendable. 

Regardless, it may be Europe’s only option, as the Russian Soyuz has withdrawn regular launches from the French department of Guiana in South America, and the long reliable Ariane 5 has completed its final launch as of summer 2023.

These hotfire tests are progress in the right direction, and a step toward a healthier international launch market.

3) Actuary, We Have a Problem: the space insurance market (yes, one exists) could be in hot water with the estimated losses from several multi million dollar satellite back-to-back failures.

Inmarsat-6 and ViaSat-3 have both experienced communications anomalies that could result in the loss of the satellites, and the subsequent surge in insurance rates. Insurers are bracing for what could be a nearly half a billion dollar combined loss between both satellites, shocking the market hard at once.

More claims and rate hikes are likely to come into the future, as satellite launch cadence increases.

Rising Space Creators to Follow

Twitter (X) - Andrew McCarthy (269.8K Followers) 🚀

Instagram - SpaceInfo Club (110K Followers) 🌎

LinkedIn - Trevor Mahlmann (31.6K Followers) 📸

TikTok - Zoliroastro (1.1M Followers) 🔭

International Insights

With the United States launching nearly more payload than the rest of the world combined, and aerospace affinity ingrained in its very culture - from fighter jet formations at summertime airshows to space shuttle toys filling the hands of children across generations - it’s easy to forget that the space economy is a worldwide effort with international innovation, each corner deserving some recognition. Sometimes, the best work is done at the edge of the map.

This week’s focus will be Singapore.

(The world famous Marina Bay Sands Hotel, in Singapore)

A small city-state with a disproportionately massive economy, Singapore is in that perfect space technology middleground: too small to bother building rockets, but just rich enough to make what goes into them.

Per the Space Generation Advisory Council, “Singapore's space sector comprises over 2,000 professionals and researchers working in over 60 companies active in different sections of the entire value chain – from design and manufacturing to satellite based services such as data processing.” [1]

Singapore is renowned the world over for its technocratic society, and while most of its innovations go toward the energy and maritime sectors, thanks to its fortunate position in the Strait of Malacca - where millions of barrels of oil travel by ship each day) - there is still a surprisingly significant aerospace presence in this island nation.

Recently, Singapore shared some of India’s headline glory by launching 7 Earth imaging satellites from the Indian Space Research Organization’s launch site in Sriharikota. Two rising space economies, collaborating for a shared vision of the future.

Keep watch on this country, because while its space economy is relatively young, its innovations could be riding the perfect wave of progress: thanks to dropping launch costs, with other countries fronting the biggest bills, while Singapore does what it does best and deploys its niche technology to exponential effect.

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