Sharing some childhood dreams in the opening keynote at the SmallSat Symposium today

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SmallSat Symposium agenda… and I am followed by the CEO of NewSpace Global, Mr. Dick Rocket. Seriously. =)

And a new report just came out tabulating that 2015 was a a banner year for venture investment in space companies, exceeding all prior years combined (FORTUNE)

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jurvetson

Feb 23, 2016 at 9:47 pm

The motivation of Mars The measure of American space launch competitiveness is commercial launch market share, since it is a globally competitive market. U.S. market share declined from 100% to 0% for all commercial satellite launches, even from U.S. satellite companies. And then SpaceX entered the market.

Here are a couple slides from ATK, who also noted that there are over 30 startups developing new rockets devoted to small payload launches: Zooming in on the Microsats, most of the change comes from one company — Planet Labs: When Doves Tweet @SmallSatBiz

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