The south pole
Water ice, permanent shadow, and a legal regime that nobody has finished writing. The first commercially useful map of the Moon will be a map of who may do what, where.
Science
The question was never
whether the ocean had an edge.
It was who would pay to find out. Discovery is a customer segment with a budget, a buyer and a delivery date — and it is the reason any of the other divisions have a map.
Science
In 1492 the question was not whether the ocean had an edge. It was who would pay to find out.
Discovery is a customer segment. It has a budget, a buyer and a delivery date.
Objects that pass near us
Near-Earth objects are resources and risks in the same catalogue. The instruments that find them are built by universities; the customers who need the data are insurers and operators.
Instruments without a ride
Europe builds excellent instruments and struggles to fly them. Matching an instrument to a host is a brokerage problem dressed as a science problem.
Open questions
What we do not know yet,
written down.
A gap that is named is a research plan. A gap that is hidden is a sales problem later. These are the questions we are working on, in public.
- Who pays for the first commercial lunar survey, and what do they get that a government programme cannot give them?
- Which instrument classes are stranded in Europe today — built, tested, unflown?
- What does an insurer need before it will underwrite a payload on a vehicle with no flight history?
Contact
Tell us the decision
you have to make.
A first conversation is free and usually short: what you are entering, what you already have, what would change your mind.
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