Space is rapidly growing into an exciting ecosystem for business. Raphael Roettgen, co-founder of the  Space Athletics Federation, hosts the popular Space Business Podcast. We hear from entrepreneurs, executives, investors and others about the many opportunities that exist. The podcast is produced by the Space Business Institute in partnership with the International Space University. Link […]

Space Athletics Federation’s Richard Donovan was recently elected to The Explorers Club. The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and resource conservation. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide. Its […]

Raphael Roettgen is co-founder of the Space Athletics Federation®. His acclaimed introductory space book ‘TO INFINITY – The Space Economy & How You Can Participate’ is now fully revised and updated. Raphael maintains that education and outreach about Space is of key importance, e.g. explaining: – Why Space is important to help solve many of […]

The Space Athletics Federation® has successfully registered its trademark name at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, both logo and standard character set. The USPTO has also approved the following: AstroAthlete AstroChampion AstroCyclist AstroFighter AstroFitness AstroPlayer AstroRunner AstroWarrior The Space Athletics Federation looks forward to these words gaining household recognition over the coming years.

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 […]