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This briefing brought together Planetary Scientists with
NewSpace Entrepreneurs to examine timescales, opportunities for different
stakeholders and commercial reward from private space companies and the
opportunities that exist for planetary scientists in looking at the feasibility
of these ventures to open up a new frontier.
James Carpenter from the European Space Agency, chaired the
session, citing the benefits this could bring to planetary science and how exciting
it is to see new ventures emerge over the last few years.
“There have been initiatives from various quarters, building
on work done by governmental agencies in the last decades to try to make space
an economical place to go and explore. If this can be realised, this can yield
some real benefits, for economics, for science, really open up space as a
frontier, which personally as an enthusiast I find very exciting.”
