Space Entrepreneurship
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Space Entrepreneurship
Something Big is coming
Who am I?
• Masters in Internetworking and Medical Research
• Residence at Fishburners
• Graduate from the International Space University
Global Position System
Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
• Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System• Japan Quasi-Zenith Satellite System• Pakistan Navigational Satellite System
GPS Augmentation
• US Based System • European Based System
+/- 1 Meter Accuracy
What is in your Phone?
New Services?
• Autonomous cars
• Precision Farming/Agriculture
• New Aircraft/Maritime Navigation systems
• Geographical aware advertising
Telecommunications
Revenues - 2011
• Launch Services - $6 Billion• Satellite Manufacturing - $15.5 Billion• Earth Sector Manufacturing – $35 Billion• Communications Sat Service - $125 Billion
Source: Futron Corp and Satellite Industry Association
2 Main Challanges
• Limited Number of Orbital Slots
• Radio Frequency Spectrum Allocation
Free-Space Optical Communication
Artemis GEO Satellite
• Launch by the European Space Agency in 2001
• SILEX (Semiconductor-laser Intersatellite Link Experiment) Laser Link Payload
• 38,000 km distance through the Earth’s Atmosphere
MESSENGER Mission
• Launched 2004
• Mission to Mercury
• 2 way Laser Based communication record 24,000,000km
Remote Sensing
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
CEOS Quick Facts
• Setup in 1984 and has 52 Members Organizations
• More than 400 Space Missions on Catalog
• Over a 100 Space Missions with Open Access
Landsat Program
• 1st Launched in 1972
• Longest running Satellite imagery program
• Millions of images of the entire earth’s surface
• Used to help build Google Earth
NASA's Smartphone Nanosatellite
Orbital Debris
How Much Debris is out there?
Spacecraft
• Started in 2002 by Elon Musk
• Startup Capital 500 million USD
• 2012 won the ISS Supply Contract
• $1 Billion spent over 10 years
Space Tourism
• Only Current Space Tourism Operator
• Works with the Russian Space Agency
• Selling Spare Capacity on the ISS
• Up to $35 million a Ticket
White Knight 2 and Space Ship 2
Virgin Galactic
• Based on Scale Composites Design
• Winner of the X Prize of $10,000,000 in 2004
• Sold more than 500 tickets to date
• Each ticket is $200,000 USD
Space Tourism
What does the FAA say?
New Space Policy
Due out 2013
Value of PNT to Australia
• Up to $12.6 billion increase in GDP by 2030• Safer Airspace/ Seaway• More Efficient Transport Network• Enhanced capabilities for measuring the
impact of climate change
Lunar Numbat
• Competing in the Google Lunar X-Prize
• Open-Source Technologies
• Linux powered robotic Australian marsupial, on the moon
Pathways to Space: Empowering the internet generation
• University of New South Wales (NSW)
• Hands On Student Project
• Simulated Mars Exploration
• Hosted in the Power House Museum
Scramjet-based access-to-space systems (Scramspace)
• The University of Queensland (QLD)
• Leading a $14 million international consortium
• New Engines for Mach 8
Automated Laser Tracking of Space Debris
• EOS Space Systems Pty Limited (ACT)
• Laser Tracking of Space Debris
• Eventually plan to use Laser to push space debris
What can I do?
Get Training
Space by its nature is something global, and you got to think globally
to actually make it work.
What does ISU Offer?
• Interdisciplinary• Intercultural• International• 3500 ISU alumni in 100 countries
University's first Chancellor - Arthur C. Clarke
Questions?
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”― Richard Buckminster Fuller