The Emerging Space Market: $17.8 Billion in Investment to Date and Climbing
NSR’s “Emerging Space Markets Analysis, 2nd Edition (ESMA2)” report tracked more than $17.8 billion invested in Emerging Space companies from 2000-2018 for the more than 600 companies founded over that period.

From Earth with Love
“Valentine’s Day has struck again,” tweeted European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet when he posted this image of a heart-shaped lake in Mongolia.

Government of Canada Awards Microsatellite Contract for Arctic Surveillance
The Canadian Department of National Defence awarded a C$15 million contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) for development of multipurpose microsatellites to support Arctic surveillance.

Warming Seas May Increase Frequency of Extreme Storms
A new NASA study shows that warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change could lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century.