industry what generally came in your
mind in something big complex with huge
investment with big company dealing with
this and finally with a very little
place for startups as but I’m sure
entrepreneurship entrepreneur you you
could think space is a dream but there
is no place for me in this dream if you
think so
you are wrong I will explain you why
first let’s say what what is space
industry roughly there are two different
area one the first is a building of
satellites of rockets and everything
which is need to operate with satellites
the second area which is closer to
digital world is all the use of data
coming from satellites telecommunication
data data for localization GPS and
Galileo hand hold the data coming from
it’s true to say that to build
satellites needs huge investment huge
installation light like this it’s right
to say that it’s quite difficult to
access to the data coming from science
satellites to process them so in the
past it’s true that there were little
number of company with were created
around our space the Genovese company
were generally created by very
well-qualified
people generally coming from existing
space company but it was the past and
now you have a chance you have a chance
to live in a wonderful period for for
space a period in which a lot of
modification of this industry allow to
do a lot of things let’s start the story
10 years ago with GBS in 2007 the GPS
was operational for 20 years at this
time it was used of course for military
but for a lot of professional use with
dedicated terminals like this so the
number of company but we’re creating new
services was limited because for each
new services you needed to create a
specific terminal so the market was
niche market and suddenly in 2007
something appear that changed the game
for smartphone and the smartphone hello
the convergence between space
information to locate to locate you
everywhere in the world with a mobile
terminal with processing visualization
and data transmission capabilities and
this exchange everything
this convergence has opened an area of
thousands of new ideas and of course new
company we could have imagined
in 2007 the all the services and the
company that are already but now
familiar to us
this company an application have
completely changed everything and even
some societal rules itself and which is
important to do see it’s that this
company with new company have not been
created by space people we have been
created by developer business people and
so this is first chapter of a story the
second chapter of a story came some
years ago in the another field
manufacturing the building a
manufacturing of satellites some
investors coming from mainly from United
States they begin to consider that space
sector finally it’s a sector like
another sector full of business
opportunity and they began to build
satellite to brittle rocket with new
methods with new technology with idea
coming from another sectors the name you
know them alone mask from SpaceX Richard
Branson from the gene Greg Wyler for one
web planet labs they came in the game
only five years ago and they change
everything they came with new ideas but
they came as well with new dreams vision
would like to democratize the space
tourism SpaceX would like to make
resurrect and go to to Mars planet labs
would like to make permanent
monitoring of our f1 web is developing a
system to give internet everywhere to
everyone in the world with a low price
so they are they were changing the rule
of a game so we are now with this 2
chapter with a story which is continuing
to write and now there are some new
chapters right and you have to write
this new chapter but what are themes of
his new chapter 1 first of a first team
of his new chapter is the youth or all
the information coming from Earth
observation satellites the development
of earth observation satellites as a
quite long story we began 50 years ago
of course for military but very quick
the application of these satellites came
in all the sector of life meteorological
aspects climate environment agriculture
and so on and now they are essential to
all this subject but it’s it was and
it’s still a bit complex to use all
these data coming from satellites for
several reason the data are a bit
expensive it’s quite difficult to find
this data to get into process this data
and so on the precision of the images
are not enough for certain kind of
application and the frequency of images
you get is not is not enough so this
mean that you are not sure to get the
good image at a good moment of a place
in there on the earth so there are some
limitation of reuse
these images however varies there are
some factors that let us thinking but we
may we will enter in a new area for the
use of its satellites the first factor
is the huge increase of a number of
recent lights from the private sector
and for the public sector for example
Planet clubs
I was launched last week 88 new
satellites Copernicus is launching
regularly some new satellites from
public phones and this exclusion of the
number of Earth Federation satellites
have some interesting consequences for
you for us the first one it’s the price
is decreasing the second you have more
and more frequent image so it’s more and
more simple to get the image on on the
place we can imagine van in some year
there will be a permanent monitoring of
the earth like the camera you have in
town the precision is increasing very
quick due to the technology and the
concurrence today it’s 30 centimeter
every thousand ohms but it will be 20
centimeter in two years and the kind of
images of some sort but I use by V
satellites more and more diverse so you
can get rather information you can get
leader information and all this
information a complementary for four
different views but there is a problem
with this explosion of number it’s the
amount of data generate we are speaking
about petabyte new petabyte each year so
the use and the processing of over data
will be only possible by the second
factor is the development
of all the big data and cloud capability
with this capability anyone anywhere in
the world with only an italic connection
could use huge capacity from cloud
provider so everyone is able to process
huge quantity of data everywhere and the
cloud provider they are providing more
and more efficient tool for using these
images because for them it’s a market
the third factor is that in combination
to this global data we have more and
more local data coming from open open
data coming from all the crowd sources
data from your smartphone coming from
object through Internet of fields object
and all these data local one could be
combined with global data from
satellites and with the IT capability
you are able to develop local services
adapt to your local needs combining this
global view and this local view and we
think this is a huge area of development
of entrepreneurship they are already
some company that are doing this kind of
things this company Pyrenees they are
providing to wine maker in France the
good very information about the good
time for the harvest we are another
company that provide to you on your
smartphone the quality of air and so on
and personally I have a lot of dream I
have a dream to monitor wild animals in
Africa to prevent poaching I have
dreamed to provide to the 1.3 billion of
farmers in the world
precise information about the projection
about the risk to avoid any famine
marginally I have a dream to be able to
provide to anyone anywhere the needed
information the crucial information on
it’s not phone so you have to write this
chapter but for Entrepreneurship which
is important it’s to have a new market
and what is a new market the new market
is full fulfilling of a societal pain
and currently we have a huge societal
pain which is a planet itself the planet
has becoming a garden hoe garden and as
for whole garden we would like to
monitor it too to take care of it and
for example to monitor the deforestation
to monitor but that hell we are briefing
it’s good it’s good for our child and
the satellite is a perfect tool for that
with Earth observation satellites you
have the world in your hand so this is a
there is one another team for a new
shelter which is in Satellite Sorel
indeed we are entering in a national
satellite period what is nano satellites
a nano satellite is a small satellite
quick to build chip quite standard the
story of nano satellite began with
University when they build V satellites
for were students but now these
satellites are coming in a business area
and here as well we are changing
everything because for the first time
it’s possible to build satellites
dedicated very precise use which was not
the case in the traditional industry
indeed the satellite were big complex
expensive and so you have to build
satellite data able to do a large panel
of observation to be to sell to
different customers with nano satellites
different you can build satellites for
very precise views and this is due to
the standardization of the satellites
it’s possible to create company dedicate
to very precise use and we begin to see
a lot of this company mainly in USA but
as well in Europe fq bur compiled French
company is building some satellites like
this only to monitor pipeline flew it’s
very precise mission and so this period
is very is opening a lot of opportunity
for people would like to create this
kind of Museum as you see
we are just at the beginning of a story
of entrepreneurship in space now it’s up
to you to write the flow of the story
it’s only a question of wishes of
imagination of ideas of dreams and want
very important things it’s that now
everything is possible everywhere keep
in mind you may say I’m a dreamer I hope
I’m not the only one [Music]