To infinity and beyond: Opportunities in the space sector

SPACs are a popular route

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The space tech sector is booming and has reached a tipping point.

With $3bn invested in space infrastructure alone in the past 12 months, 573 satellites launched into orbit in Q2 2021 alone, and technological advancements and increasingly favourable economics removing barriers to entry for smaller companies to get satellites into orbit, the space tech 'internet moment' is well and truly here. Just as back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the rapid evolution of the Internet helped businesses create entirely new revenue streams by "going online" and enabled the creation of entirely new businesses that would have been possible at all in the pre-internet age, so ...

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