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From billion-dollar launch contracts to the founders betting everything on a new way to reach orbit, this is where SpaceInfo Club tracks the business of space. Coverage spans commercial rockets, satellite constellations, space tourism, and the policy and geopolitics shaping who gets to fly.
Reporting draws on conversations with the people building this industry from the ground up, including Corinna Sperandini, CEO of Spacewear, and Marius Celette, CEO of Alpha Impulsion.
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Corinna Sperandini — CEO, Spacewear; award-winning innovator in wearable space technology.
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Marius Celette — CEO, Alpha Impulsion; rethinking rocket propulsion from the inside out.
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Photo Credits: Space Park Leicester A company that builds satellite ground software has just paid for a new pig fence. It sounds like an odd pairing, but it shows how a space research hub can matter well beyond the launch pad. CGI, an international IT and business consulting firm with a team at Space
From Space Park Leicester to the Farm Gate: CGI Gives £26,000 to Gorse Hill City Farm Read More »
NASA’s Moon Base headlines of $10 billion and $5 billion are contract ceilings, not budgets. Here is how IDIQ contracts work and which numbers reflect firm work.
IDIQ Ceilings vs Real Money: How to Read NASA’s Moon Base Contracts Read More »
US deep-tech sensor company SAAZ Micro has opened SAAZ Micro UK Ltd at Space Park Leicester to design and build infrared, ultraviolet, visible and neuromorphic imaging sensors for space, astronomy and defence.
SAAZ Micro Opens New Overseas Office at Space Park Leicester Read More »
ESA and the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky signed a Memorandum of Intent. What it says, how satellites affect optical and radio astronomy, what has been tried, and what remains open.
ESA and the IAU CPS Sign an Agreement to Keep the Sky Dark and Quiet Read More »
Cover Image Credit: ESA/P. Carril On 23 and 26 October 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed contract extensions for four additional Galileo Second Generation (G2) satellites. The Galileo G2 fleet now stands at 16 satellites. The new spacecraft are scheduled for delivery in 2031, with launch to follow soon after. What was signed,
Europe Orders Four More Galileo Second Generation Satellites Read More »
Cover Image: Members of the IDE Systems team at Space Park Leicester – Credits SPL Sometimes a business decision comes down to spreadsheets and strategy. This time, it also came down to a rock from the Moon. IDE Systems, an engineering company specialising in systems engineering and safety assurance, has become the latest organisation to
A Piece of Moon Rock Helps Bring IDE Systems to Space Park Leicester Read More »
Launch costs have fallen forty-fold, yet most satellites still cannot decide without a human in the loop. Why autonomy, not hardware, is new space’s real bottleneck.
The Hardest Part of Building New Space Is Not What You Think Read More »
A UK-Rwanda-Tanzania project called IKIRERE is studying droughts and heatwaves in East Africa while teaching physics, climate science and satellite technology to students and early career scientists.
Leicester Scientists Help Train East Africa’s Next Generation of Climate Researchers Read More »
ESA signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with Vast, builder of the Haven space stations, replacing the 2024 agreement and showing how Europe prepares for the post-ISS era.
ESA and Vast: the new MoU and Europe’s future after the ISS Read More »
A University of Vienna-led team operated a programmable photonic quantum processor in orbit and observed two-photon interference: a real first, but a feasibility test, not a useful quantum computation.
Photonic Quantum Processor in Orbit: What the First Test Proved, and What It Didn’t Read More »
