Breakthrough Science Primer: Space
Humans have always had the urge to move and explore. At Prime Movers Lab, we believe that mankind will radically reduce the cost of access to space, creating a new frontier for exploration and offer new opportunities to use space technology to serve humans on earth and give us unprecedented capabilities to better understand and explore the universe around us. Read our latest predictions, thought papers, and blogs about emerging technologies in space to see what we are so excited about the sector.
Webinars
Thought Papers
- LEO SatCom by Liz Stein
- Orbital Debris by Christie Iacomini
Blogs
- Why We Invested in Quantum Space by Anton Brevde
- Earth To Regulators: Space Needs You by Greg Wyler
- The Fastest Approach to Address Orbital Debris by Christie Iacomini
- Why Orbital Debris Deserves Our Attention by Christie Iacomini
- Why We Invested in E-Space by Anton Brevde
- 2023 Will Be the Year That the New Space Bubble Pops by Anton Brevde
- Why SpaceX is at Risk of Bankruptcy Part 1 by Anton Brevde
- Why We Invested in E-Space by Anton Brevde
- Launch Cost and Cadence Are Key Enablers for the New Space Economy by Liz Stein
- A Deep Dive on Space Tourism by Anton Brevde
- Why We Invested in Space Perspective (Again!) by Anton Brevde
- Why We Invested in Space Perspective by Anton Brevde
- New Space by the Numbers by Anton Brevde
- Bottlenecks in Rocket Engine Production May Slow the Space Economy Flywheel by Liz Stein
- New Space Liquidity by Anton Brevde
- Investing in Momentus: the First In-Space Transportation Service by Dakin Sloss
- Prime Movers Lab Webinar Recap: Emerging Markets in the Space Economy by Liz Stein
Breakthrough Science Roadmap Predictions
- Space debris remediation through de-orbit of dead satellites by 2023
- Fires, albedo, and CH4 emissions are tracked from space via satellites by 2023
- Commercial orbital fuel depots servicing geostationary orbit by 2024
- Continuous lunar communication infrastructure in place by 2027
- Launch costs drop another order of magnitude by 2028
- Orbiting hotels and commercial business parks by 2030
- Crewed Mars mission by 2032
- On-orbit manufacturing for in-space infrastructure by 2034
- Commercial on-orbit refueling is common by 2035
- Lunar mining by 2037
- Large capacity fuel depots enable interorbit mobility and cis-lunar shuttling by 2038
- First crewed moon base by 2039
- Cleanup of small scale space debris (<10cm) by 2040
- In-space nuclear propulsion by 2042
- Near-Earth asteroid mining by 2043
- Space recycling of satellites rather than de-orbit by 2042
- Lunar helium-3 mining for fusion energy by 2045
Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agriculture.
Sign up here if you are not already subscribed to our blog.
