#SpaceEntrepreneurship – NewSpace Chicago

Event Tue 10/19: Separating Great Space Investments from Space Junk

October 15, 2021 October 15, 2021Events

Our October event will feature Mike Collett, Founder and Managing Partner of Promus Ventures, the Chicago headquartered venture firm which recently closed its $140 million Space Fund, dedicated to investments in early stage commercial space opportunities around the globe. Mike Collett is the Founder and Managing Partner of Promus Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Chicago, San Francisco, and Luxembourg investing in deep-technology startups in the U.S., Europe, and New Zealand. Mike has been…

Event Tue 6/15: Building an In-Space Economy, Building a Successful Space Company

June 8, 2021 June 15, 2021Events

Dr. Robert Hoyt will discuss the chicken-and-egg challenge in bootstrapping a new economic sphere based around in-space services, and the work that Tethers Unlimited is doing to develop key technologies needed to enable those in-space services. He will also discuss lessons learned from his experiences in founding Tethers Unlimited, growing it organically over the past 26 years, and then selling the company to a Private Equity-backed firm. Dr. Hoyt is a ‘relentlessly-inventive’ Technologist and Executive…

Event Tues 5/18, 2021: Follies, Failures, and Successes in Pursuit of a Bustling In-Space Economy

April 21, 2021 April 20, 2021Events

If we want to get off this rock, we need a bustling in-space economy that supports permanent jobs in orbit. Through building several satellites and founding several startups across four continents, Daniel’s career exemplifies, perhaps, a preponderance to fail forward in pursuit of this goal. Join in a reflection on an industry that has changed dramatically in the last few years, and speculation of whole new areas of endeavour where we have not failed sufficiently…

Event Apr 29 & 30, 2021: Student Space Congress

March 9, 2021 April 1, 2021Events

Have your dreams of what the future of space may bring kept you busy? Are you working on a space related project that you want to share with the world? In it’s ongoing mission to promote the entrepreneurial space industry, NewSpace Chicago is hosting a virtualStudent Space Congress in Chicago this April 2021. Through this event, we want to provide students – undergraduate and graduate – from across the country the opportunity to present their…

Event Tue 02/11: NearSpace Launch’s Journey to 400+ Systems in Orbit

January 22, 2020 January 22, 2020Events

NewSpace Chicago welcomes Matt Voss of NearSpace Launch Inc. NSL has flown 400+ systems in the past five years, with 100% mission success for all commercial and research missions. NSL manufactures and produces ThinSats, CubeSats, Black Boxes, and Globalstar enabled communication systems (EyeStar radios) for a variety of commercial, governmental, and educational applications. NSL was founded following the successful mission of TSAT with Globalstar. The mission proved one could effectively connect 24/7 to an NSL…

Event Thu 12/12: The Future of Satellite-Based Internet

November 27, 2019 January 18, 2020Events

RSVP: Sign up through EventBrite.com Satellites have been communicating with the Earth ever since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Telecommunications capabilities have been the bedrock of the satellite industry with broadband services representing a ~$2.4b market in 2018. Many private space companies such as SpaceX, OneWeb, and O3b are currently developing, launching, and operating constellations of satellites providing internet to consumer and industrial users. With many of these companies announcing plans to scale up…