The orbital research economy will be won on standards

What happened

[…] The post The orbital research economy will be won on standards appeared first on EU-Startups . The largest listing in history just told the market, in the blunt language it actually understands, that space is a real asset class and not a rich man’s hobby.

The IPO (the sale of a company’s shares to the public on a stock exchange) only validated the launch business. The part of the orbital economy focused on real pharmaceutical research in microgravity is still not an industry.

And what stands between those two states isn’t another rocket. The science is no longer the question For those asking “ is space-based pharmaceutical research even real? ” That question has been out of the way for a while now.