SpaceWaves2020

SpaceWaves: Avoiding celestial anarchy (with video)

Alexander Salter and Dooner

Determining how government jurisdiction will extend past Earth’s gravitational pull

We made it to space, now who makes the rules?

Who governs space? And how do they get the jurisdiction to govern it?

Those are questions that haven’t quite been answered yet but are at the front of the conversation with commercial space flight on the near horizon.

Alexander Salter hears these questions and more from his students at Texas Tech University, where he teaches economics. 

Salter says the existing rules for...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-avoiding-celestial-anarchy-with-video

How valuable is the space market? — Great Quarter, Guys (with video)

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SpaceWaves: Bank of America’s Ron Epstein talks the true value of the space market 

Great Quarter, Guys is sponsored by CarrierDirect

Andrew Cox and Seth Holm wrap up SpaceWaves with a special edition of Great Quarter, Guys. 

Keeping the “You care or nah?” segment short Thursday with only four topics, the guys actually care about every single one.

Momentous announced it will be joining the public market by SPAC, making it the second pure play space company to do so. 

It currently has no revenue but...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-valuable-is-the-space-market-great-quarter-guys-with-video

SpaceWaves: DHL’s place in space logistics (with video)

Justin Baird for DHL

Dooner and The Dude learn how carrier DHL will fit into the commercial space world

Where does carrier DHL fit into the world of space logistics?

DHL is one of the largest logistics companies on Earth, and it aims to take its presence into space as well. 

Justin Baird is the vice president and head of innovation for the DHL Asia-Pacific sector. He joined Dooner and The Dude to discuss the projected footprint in space. 

Baird says DHL produces a two-year research program called a Trend Radar, which...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-dhls-place-in-space-logistics-with-video

SpaceWaves: Cleaning up the junk in lower orbit (with video)

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Dooner and The Dude learn how keeping orbital space clean is a growing business

Dave Fischer talks keeping lower orbit clean and debris free.

What goes up must come down, or so they say; but what happens to the stuff that gets sent into space, orbits the Earth and never comes back?

Dave Fischer, vice president of business development and advanced systems for Astroscale, tells Dooner and The Dude how he is working to give space a clean sweep. 

“In the next 10 years you could see tens of thousands...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-cleaning-up-the-junk-in-lower-orbit-with-video

SpaceWaves: Seven trips out of the atmosphere (with video)

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Dooner and The Dude discuss going to the stars with Franklin Chang-Diaz

How sustainability and democracy will be essential for commercial space expansion.

Many people dream of going to space once in their lives, but Franklin Chang-Diaz has left Earth’s surface seven times in his career as an astronaut. 

He answered some questions from a very curious Dooner about what it’s like to have the privilege of leaving the atmosphere. 

“Being in space is a total sense of liberation of things that we are...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-seven-trips-out-of-the-atmosphere-with-video

SpaceWaves: How NASA fits into commercialization of space (with video)

NASA tech leaders with dooner and vincent

SpaceWaves keynote speaker Mark Wiese answers questions about the role of NASA and private space investment

Dooner & The Dude interview Mark Wiese, Max Briggs and Mark McDonald.

No one knows how the space market is going to pan out, but three NASA leaders recommend venture capitalists look for opportunities that are commercially viable as well as beneficial to governments. 

During the SpaceWaves virtual forum Thursday, Dooner and The Dude chatted about commercial opportunities in space with Mark...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-how-nasa-fits-into-commercialization-of-space-with-video

SpaceWaves: AI automation on Earth before space (with video)

Autobon AI founder Krystian Gebis

Why artificial intelligence development on Earth matters right now

Why perfecting AI technology in freight now will matter in space

Krystain Gebis has lofty goals for the use of artificial intelligence when it comes to space exploration. 

As the founder of  Autobon AI, he has started building a company geared to drive autonomy of cold chain logistics. 

This can be relevant to the space industry as the space environment is unforgivingly cold. 

Autobon AI is working to automate the terrestrial...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-ai-automation-on-earth-before-space-with-video

SpaceWaves: ‘Out of this world’ commodities opportunities abound in space (with video)

Commodities and finance expert Tom James (right) with FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill discuss commodities in space during the SpaceWaves conference.

Trillions of dollars worth of commodities exist in the vastness of space just waiting for someone with the technical know-how, technology and logistics capabilities to extract them from asteroids and get them back to Earth. 

“It’s out of this world, literally,” remarked Tom James, a commodities and finance expert who edited “Deep Space Commodities: Exploration, Production and Trading.” The book offers a practical guide for navigating the future of commodities outside the confines of Earth –...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-out-of-this-world-commodities-opportunities-abound-in-space-with-video

SpaceWaves: The final supply chain frontier (with video)

Avoiding space debris represents one of the biggest “risks” to operating a supply chain in outer space, said Darren McKnight, a technical director for Centauri Corp.

More than 20,000 objects in Earth’s orbit are considered space debris, the majority being man-made objects, creating challenges for interstellar logistics and supply chain operations, McKnight said.

“It’s all about risk. Collision risk is important to minimize — we don’t want to run into things, we don’t want operational satellites...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-and-supply-chain-frontier

Protecting your claim: Security concerns for prospective space truckers (with video)

Fending off claim jumpers was a big problem for prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849. Fast forward 175 years, and the trucking companies that decide to make a go of it in the lucrative near-Earth precious metal mining game may face the same problem.

“International law states that no one owns these new-space resources — you can’t plant a flag and say this asteroid is mine,” Denisa Scott, founder of NüsPrime Endeavors LLC, told FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill during a SpaceWaves...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/protecting-your-claim-security-concerns-for-prospective-space-truckers-with-video

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