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Helium 3: The Bridge Commodity That MAY Make the Moon Make Sense
For decades, people have rolled their eyes when helium 3 is mentioned in the same breath as the Moon. The story always jumped from Apollo rocks to futuristic fusion reactors, skipping over the...
Why Downmass Is More Than Just Gravity Doing Its Job
Upmass gets all the attention. Rockets light up the sky, satellites get press releases, and astronauts smile for the cameras. But downmass? That is the unglamorous sibling who actually pays the...
Seeing Through Risk: How the Tier Method Guides Smarter Investment
Guest post by Sean Key As an investment watcher, I see space startups dealing with challenges that make other industries look tame. These are not lean software plays spinning up in a garage. They...
Lunar Station Construction: The Backbone of a Self-Sustaining cisLunar Economy
Guest post by Sean Key For decades, visions of space commerce have leaned heavily on speculative exports such as Helium 3 or rare lunar metals. While these ideas capture imagination, they are far...
Demographic Decline and the Future of Commercial Space and Deep Tech
Guest post by Sean Key Introduction Global birth rates are falling and populations are aging. The global fertility rate has dropped from nearly five children per woman in the 1950s to about 2.3 in...
From Risk Assessment to Market Creation: How the Tier Method™ Can Transform Emerging Technology Finance
by Sean Key Frontier industries like commercial space and deep tech have always faced the same paradox: they are too important to ignore, yet too uncertain for traditional financial models....
The Tier Method: Its Genesis, Evolution, and Purpose
When I first developed the Tier Method my ambitions were not as comprehensive as the method’s current form, but the foundation came from the same thesis. My conviction has always been that for the...
Innovation or Imitation? A Casual Look at the Auriga Space vs. Orbital Bridge Dispute
By Sean Key Note on Perspective Just a heads-up, I am not an aerospace engineer or technical expert. What follows is based on my own review of publicly available images and information, and reflects...
“Elevator Pitch Competition” to be held at the Space Generation Congress, Sydney, Australia, September 25th
The Center for Space Commerce and Finance has partnered with the Space Generation Advisory Council, along with SGAC’s Project Groups Coordination Team, to produce and host a space startup “Elevator...
CSCF Newsblast – 8/13/24
IN THIS ISSUE: Welcome to the relaunch! A new donor and Board member What we’ve been doing - Tom and Lisa @ ISDC - Restructuring upgrading the website (ongoing) - Working...