We are an open community of space entrepreneurs, professionals and others who are creating private companies to commercialize outer space. We are promoting Chicago as a center of excellence for new commercial space, space-related, or space-scalable ventures. We have monthly networking events and programs supporting space entrepreneurship in Chicago. Join us. Join the future!
Event Thu 6/13: 4th Planet Logistics
Join us for a discussion with noted explorer, adventurer and CEO of 4th Planet Logistics, Michael Chalmer Dunn. His company is developing technologies for creating habitats from naturally occurring terrestrial lava tubes analogous to the Moon and Mars...
Event Thu 5/9: Property Rights in Outer Space: A Startup’s Voyage
Join a discussion between an attorney and a hypothetical space startup with a business model to collect abandoned objects in Low Earth Orbit and mine local asteroids for exotic minerals. Can a business extract minerals from celestial bodies?...
Event Thu 4/11 UPDATED: Creating Value in the NewSpace Industry
Charles Mudd will be unable to join us Thursday evening due to inclement weather. In his place, Aaron Pagel will present on creating value in the NewSpace industry. There are a lot of effective ways to approach strategy...
Applications Open for NewSpace Chicago Fellowship to Founder Institute Spring 2019 Session
NewSpace Chicago is excited to announce that the Founder Institute, the world’s premier pre-seed accelerator, is offering the best applicants with space-technology ideas a NewSpace Chicago fellowship to their Chicago Spring 2019 session. Through this offer, anyone with...
Event Thu 3/7: Trends in the NewSpace Industry
NewSpace Chicago welcomes Sean Casey of Atlas Space Operations. During his presentation, he’ll detail the current trends and possible future state of the industry with a focus on cost-effective and reliable data and communications services. Sean Casey was...
Event Thu 1/10: Xenesis… a Midwest space start-up story
At this event Mark LaPenna will take us behind the scenes for the genesis moment of Xenesis, its mission, its business and its pivot…from there, the problems encountered, the trials faced and the success they’ve achieved. Mark LaPenna...
Webinar Thu 12/20: Launch Fundamentals for Cubesat Missions
This webinar training familiarizes entreprenuers, students, and researchers with launch fundamentals for cubesat missions. The training will cover topics ranging from regulatory requirements, spectrum allocation, export control, operating permits, ground station networks, and launch provider options and considerations....
Webinar Tue 12/18: Introduction to Orbital Mechanics for Cubesat Missions
This webinar training familiarizes first-time users with the tools, workflow, and visualization techniques to model and incorporate your own cubesat systems and missions. The training will lay the foundation that expands to the advanced analysis tools to quantify...
Event Thu 12/13: Investing In NewSpace: Real Opportunities Now
If you were an active investor in 1995, what Internet companies did you buy into? If you bought Amazon or Yahoo! well done! If you bought Pets.com or Furniture.com you have our sympathies! Was competent due diligence and/or...