On September 19th, the Caelus Foundation had the opportunity to help support and participate in the Sino-US Space Commercialization Perspectives Workshop; co-hosted by the Secure World Foundation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics.

In collaboration with the Secure World Foundation, the Caelus Foundation completed its first research study on identifying and defining the challenges of communicating the value of space-related enterprises with ambiguous and inconsistent terminology. This study was led by Rob Ronci with the support of both foundations. Initial findings were recently shared with the international space community. The key messages presented included: the ambiguity of the term ‘space’ as a category of enterprise that carries a little-to-no clear value proposition; how terms such as ‘newspace’ and ‘commercial space’ are used to convey that there is commercial value in space but create new challenges due to their inconsistent usage; and a granular breakdown of underlying value concepts that are critical for space industry stakeholders in an attempt to support their communication strategies. The published study will be available shortly. Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy.

Jose Ocasio-Christian, our Board Chairman, spoke with Dr. David Livingston in a live conversation on Friday, October 18, 2019. The focus of this discussion was on our upcoming event:The Second Sino-US Space Commercialization Workshop, reflections of the first workshop in this series, and our approach to this critical dialogue. Listen to the podcast.

We hosted a Community Conversation for the general public to learn more about our mission, our work perspectives on the development of the space domain based on our work around the world. Jose and other members of our team were available for questions and conversation following a brief presentation.

Thank you to WeWork Lincoln Square and their incredible team for providing space for us to meet.

We co-hosted, along with our partners at the Chinese Society of Astronautics and the Secure World Foundation, a workshop to initiate a dialogue to improve shared understanding of US and Chinese commercialization of the space domain. We believe that a dialogue involving non-government, academic, and practitioner organizations is necessary to address the geopolitical and economic challenges that currently exist. Acknowledging the magnitude of these challenges, we have shaped a non-politically driven forum for exchanging views with the goal of educating, informing, and inspiring collaborative activity while maintaining each sovereign nation’s interest. The partners that hosted the workshop anticipated that this dialogue on economic affairs will continue beyond the conclusion of the event, which it has.

Jose Ocasio-Christian, our Board Chairman, spoke with Dr. David Livingston in a live conversation on Friday, March 8, 2019. The focus of this discussion was on our upcoming event, The Sino-US Space Commercialization Workshop: Redefining the Sino-US Space Commercialization – Perspective of Global Space Community, and our approach to this critical dialogue. Listen to the podcast

Our founding team hosted our first event, where we launched our Informal Working Dialogue series with select participants during the 34th Space Symposium. We engaged a diverse, well-informed audience in dialogue about the current challenges and future principles for the development of the space domain. The primary insight that emerged was that it is difficult to coordinate development of the space domain globally when the world does not have a common set of definitions for important terms. As a result of this event, we collaborated with others to conduct research on how terminology shapes decisions being made in the space domain.

Contact us to get a summary of this dialogue or to get involved in our Informal Working Dialogue series.