The space industry rarely slows down - but the Global Space Awards felt like a rare moment to pause and look ahead. Celebrating beneath the dinosaur skeletons of the National History Museum in London, you could almost feel eras shifting - and the weight of shaping the next one responsibly.
With 516 nominations from 38 countries, I had the honour of judging the Sustainability for Earth category sponsored by Axiom. What impressed me most was how deeply teams are embedding responsibility - not as a PR line, but as a core design principle.
Congratulations to the winners - Astroscale, Space Forge, Starlab, Skylo, Space Capital, and CubeSpace ADCS - each pushing the future forward in a meaningful way.
And congratulations to Sanjeev Gordhan, Anna Hazlett, and Avantika Gupta for creating what felt like the space industry’s own Oscars.
Seeing Tim Peake, hearing Professor Brian Greene, and reconnecting with friends reminded me: space isn’t built by governments or companies - it’s built by people who care enough to make it real.
🚨 The International Space Station just hit a historic milestone. For the FIRST TIME in 25 years, every single docking port is FULL.
8 spacecraft. 5 nations. One football-field-sized outpost orbiting Earth at 28,000 km/h. Parked outside the ISS right now like the ultimate space garage: • 2 SpaceX Dragons (Crew-11 + CRS-33 Cargo)• Japan’s brand-new HTV-X1• Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-23 XL• 2 Russian Soyuz (MS-27 & MS-28)• 2 Progress cargo ships (92 & 93)
We went from “one shuttle at a time” in the 2000s…to a traffic jam in orbit in 2025.
281+ launches this year. Commercial stations on the horizon. Starships waiting in the wings.But seriously — is this rush simply the new normal for a booming space economy, or is everyone trying to make the most of the ISS before its long-planned retirement?
👇 What do you think?
P.S. Earth feels like an endless argument, but Orbit, somehow, remains the rare place where people still manage to share air, tools, and responsibilities without carrying our conflicts with them. Perhaps the vacuum of space is more human than the vacuum of politics.
Europe has placed the biggest bet in ESA history and the space power map is being redrawn right now. Poland +277 %, UK –9 %, new rockets, sovereign satellite internet, Moon bases… Here’s where the money is actually going (and who just went all-in).👇1️⃣ This is where your €22.1 billion will actually be spent • New rockets & space transportation → €4.4 B • Pure science (mandatory programme) → €3.8 B • Earth observation (Copernicus & climate) → €3.5 B • Moon bases, Mars, human exploration → €3.0 B • IRIS² sovereign satellite internet → €2.1 B • Space safety, navigation, tech → the rest
2️⃣ Clear winners – and one surprising outlier Some countries showed extraordinary ambition this year. Biggest increases: 🇪🇸 Spain: +101% 🇩🇰 Denmark: +89% 🇵🇱 Poland: +277% 🇪🇪 Estonia: +132% 🇫🇷 France: +14% (already a top contributor) 🇮🇹 Italy: +13% 🇩🇪 Germany: +46%
Decreases: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: –9% 🇷🇴 Romania: –35% (Full country breakdown in the second graphic.) Which country surprised you the most? Poland ×3.77 or UK –9 % Curious to hear your take 👇
Ksenia Ozkok
The space industry rarely slows down - but the Global Space Awards felt like a rare moment to pause and look ahead. Celebrating beneath the dinosaur skeletons of the National History Museum in London, you could almost feel eras shifting - and the weight of shaping the next one responsibly.
With 516 nominations from 38 countries, I had the honour of judging the Sustainability for Earth category sponsored by Axiom. What impressed me most was how deeply teams are embedding responsibility - not as a PR line, but as a core design principle.
Congratulations to the winners - Astroscale, Space Forge, Starlab, Skylo, Space Capital, and CubeSpace ADCS - each pushing the future forward in a meaningful way.
And congratulations to Sanjeev Gordhan, Anna Hazlett, and Avantika Gupta for creating what felt like the space industry’s own Oscars.
Seeing Tim Peake, hearing Professor Brian Greene, and reconnecting with friends reminded me: space isn’t built by governments or companies - it’s built by people who care enough to make it real.
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🚨 The International Space Station just hit a historic milestone.
For the FIRST TIME in 25 years, every single docking port is FULL.
8 spacecraft. 5 nations. One football-field-sized outpost orbiting Earth at 28,000 km/h. Parked outside the ISS right now like the ultimate space garage:
• 2 SpaceX Dragons (Crew-11 + CRS-33 Cargo)• Japan’s brand-new HTV-X1• Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-23 XL• 2 Russian Soyuz (MS-27 & MS-28)• 2 Progress cargo ships (92 & 93)
We went from “one shuttle at a time” in the 2000s…to a traffic jam in orbit in 2025.
281+ launches this year.
Commercial stations on the horizon.
Starships waiting in the wings.But seriously — is this rush simply the new normal for a booming space economy, or is everyone trying to make the most of the ISS before its long-planned retirement?
👇 What do you think?
P.S.
Earth feels like an endless argument, but Orbit, somehow, remains the rare place where people still manage to share air, tools, and responsibilities without carrying our conflicts with them. Perhaps the vacuum of space is more human than the vacuum of politics.
Sources: #NASA, #SpaceX, #Roscosmos, #JAXA, #NorthropGrumman
#ISS
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🚀 €22.1 BILLION.
Europe has placed the biggest bet in ESA history and the space power map is being redrawn right now.
Poland +277 %, UK –9 %, new rockets, sovereign satellite internet, Moon bases…
Here’s where the money is actually going (and who just went all-in).👇1️⃣ This is where your €22.1 billion will actually be spent
• New rockets & space transportation → €4.4 B
• Pure science (mandatory programme) → €3.8 B
• Earth observation (Copernicus & climate) → €3.5 B
• Moon bases, Mars, human exploration → €3.0 B
• IRIS² sovereign satellite internet → €2.1 B
• Space safety, navigation, tech → the rest
2️⃣ Clear winners – and one surprising outlier
Some countries showed extraordinary ambition this year.
Biggest increases:
🇪🇸 Spain: +101%
🇩🇰 Denmark: +89%
🇵🇱 Poland: +277%
🇪🇪 Estonia: +132%
🇫🇷 France: +14% (already a top contributor)
🇮🇹 Italy: +13%
🇩🇪 Germany: +46%
Decreases:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: –9%
🇷🇴 Romania: –35%
(Full country breakdown in the second graphic.)
Which country surprised you the most? Poland ×3.77 or UK –9 %
Curious to hear your take 👇
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