For those not intimately familiar with the space industry, getting up to speed on decades of a deep tech sector’s development is a high barrier to entry. Open, free, structured access to that knowledge could help to close the space knowledge gap and, hopefully, stimulate entrepreneurship. That’s the idea behind a new massive open online […]

Raphael is an investor and venture capitalist whose firm E2MC Ventures invests in space businesses. Raphael is also the co-CEO of Space Acquisition Corp I, a SPAC focused on the space industry. He is also a lecturer, writer and podcaster with over twenty years of experience in global financial markets at investment banks and hedge […]

Let’s start with the why, because before we get to the what, when or how of running across America, you need to know what compels a man to do this. Then come back and do it again. Forty miles a day, every day, for three straight months. Five thousand kilometres of left-right, left-right monotony, through […]

Donovan plans to stage the first race at edge of space, ascending in a hydrogen balloon to 100,000 feet. As a boy Richard Donovan passed some of his days in the library by the courthouse in Galway city, lost in books about space and the planets and the stars. When he slept his dreams took […]

Space is no longer the preserve of states. Private operators are everywhere. In a recently published book, former banker and Space Athletics Federation co-founder Raphael Röttgen argues space is the new frontier for investors  — as long as they are passionate, have the right connections, and sufficiently deep pockets. $46 billion (CHF41 billion): that is […]