NSR in the News

March 30, 2022

Al Jazeera: Will the Ukraine war ground the space industry?

Russia regularly sends both humans and satellites up on their Soyuz rockets. “Their expertise in human spaceflight is especially strong,” says Claude Rousseau, research director at Northern Sky Research, a space consultancy firm. Ukraine’s position is less important, yet the country has a sizable space industry. Elon Musk even declared that the Ukraine-designed Zenit rocket.

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March 28, 2022

Connectivity Business: On-orbit storage opens market for cloud-based collision detection systems

U.S.-based Ramon.space today announced a new 8 terabyte (TB) modular storage solution, NuStream, that is protected by a virtual radiation shield and controlled by the company’s in-house designed RC64 processor. While the current space storage market is for Earth observation and satellite communications, Ramon.space CEO Avi Shabtai told Connectivity Business News that on-orbit storage will.

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March 15, 2022

Space News: DoD wants to change how it buys space technology – but can it?

Claude Rousseau, a space industry consultant at Northern Sky Research, said governments are missing out on commercial space advances due to the complexities of requirements and their focus on process rather than outcomes, “which is a peculiar way to do business.” The industry is pushing for more initiatives like the NRO’s recent data-sharing agreements with.

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