This document summarizes a panel discussion on developing markets in low Earth orbit. The panel included representatives from Sierra Nevada Corporation, Kentucky Space, Planet Labs, Alpha Space, and Blue Origin. They discussed current and potential commercial activities and markets in LEO, including materials testing on the International Space Station, Earth observation from small satellites, and plans for commercial suborbital and orbital transportation systems.

1. Markets in Motion: Developing
Markets in Low Earth Orbit
• JOHN OLSON, VICE PRESIDENT, SIERRA NEVADA
CORPORATION (MODERATOR)
• KRIS KIMEL, PRESIDENT, KENTUCKY SPACE
• MIKE SAFYAN, DIRECTOR OF LAUNCH AND
REGULATORY AFFAIRS, PLANET LABS
• STEPHANIE MURPHY, PRESIDENT, ALPHA SPACE
TEST AND RESEARCH ALLIANCE
• ERIKA WAGNER, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
MANAGER, BLUE ORIGIN
SPEAKERS:

2. San Diego, CA Day 1 (July 12) 9:45-11:00am
Markets in Motion: Developing Markets in LEO
Panel Chair:
John Olson, SNC
Participants:
Kris Kimel, Kentucky Space
Mike Safyan, PlanetLabs
Stephanie Murphy, Alpha Space
Erika Wagner, Blue Origin
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3. The International Space Station: Cornerstone of Exploration,
Innovation & Cooperation…also a Commercial Concept Launchpad
LEO Commercialization: Launching Towards Sustainability via Real
LEO Commercial Markets, Products, Services & Capabilities
Markets in Motion
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4. Leveraged Market Studies
Verdict from Multiple Studies: It’s Real, but… 4

5. Global Space Market and Economic Context
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6. Support for Exploration Programs:
Stepping Stones to the Future
… Including Missions of Exploration to Asteroids, the Moon and Mars
Missions: Applied Research, Technology Development,
In-Space Manufacturing, On-Orbit Assembly and Test
LEO and Beyond LEO Evolution Synergy
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7. 7 Feb 13
Developing Markets in LEO:
US-led Global Enterprise Initiative
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8. Image Courtesy NASACopyright 2013 Kentucky Space
What if the next medical breakthrough
is not on the planet Earth.

9. TangoLab-1

10. Imaging the whole
Earth every day
Mike Safyan
Director of Launch and Regulatory Affairs

11. Planet Labs Proprietary & Confidential11

12. Planet Labs Proprietary & Confidential12

13. Traditional Approach
• Tasking
• Low coverage
• Weeks to gain access
• Expensive
Planet Labs Approach
• Monitoring
• Global coverage
• Daily online delivery
• Affordable

14. NASA
LANDSAT8
PLANET LABS
DOVE

15. Planet Labs Proprietary & Confidential15
Size: 10 x 10 x 34 cm
Mass: 5 kg

16. Fleet of
~120
Satellites
End-to-end System
Global
Network of
Antennas
Cloud
Computing
& Storage
On-Demand
Access

17. Deforestation
Pulau Pini, Indonesia
Most recent Google
Maps imagery
(Landsat): early 2015

18. Deforestation
Pulau Pini, Indonesia
Planet Labs
June 22, 2015
New logging roads
precede palm oil
plantations

19. Proprietary
Visualization:
Spratly Islands
Zhubi Reef, South
China Sea
Planet Labs
September 1, 2015
International
Monitoring
Spratly Islands
Planet Labs
September 1, 2015

20. International
Monitoring
Spratly Islands
Planet Labs
November 6, 2016
Continued
infrastructure
development

21. News Events
Sinjar, Iraq
Planet Labs:
September 4, 2015

22. News Events
Sinjar, Iraq
Planet Labs:
November 14, 2015
Kurdish fighters
began attacks against
ISIS to regain control
of the city

23. Forestry
Energy &
Infrastructure
Finance &
Business
Intelligence
Maps &
Imagery
Social
Impact
Government
Agriculture
Plus many
more.…

25. Alpha Space Test and Research
Alliance – Markets in Motion

27. Who is Alpha Space?
• Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance (Alpha Space) owns and will
operate the first commercial facility at the ISS known as the Materials
International Space Station Experiment (MISSE)
• Alpha Space was formed using a business model to support the
commercialization of Low Earth Orbit
• Materials Science Testing at the ISS gives researchers unprecedented
insight to experiments
• Benefits space programs and on-earth applications

28. The Opportunity
• Materials Science Testing in Space has been done by NASA since the
Apollo Era
– Engineers tested Sputnik, Satellites,
Apollo 12 – Surveyor 3 lander, MEEP
– 8 Previous MISSE Missions
4,000 samples from 2001-2013
– NASA utilized X-37B Spaceplane
• NASA provided an opportunity to commercialize Materials Testing
in Space and created an emerging market

29. Market Attractiveness
• NASA and Government agencies have made a tremendous investment
in the development and sustainment of the International Space
Station
• Investors and entrepreneurs are drawn to this new market
• Because the infrastructure exists, the Alpha Space business model
allows us to open access to space for a much smaller incremental cost
than historical materials science missions

30. The Benefits
• Through our Cooperative Agreement with NASA, for the first time,
access to testing in space is not limited to a NASA or Government
Agency experiment
• Alpha Space offers commercial access to any private entity or person,
as well as Government Agencies
• Condensed and focused schedule for integration – Alpha Space
provides Turn-Key services
• NASA benefits from enhancements derived though private
investment
• Competition drives innovative cost solutions

31. Design Improvements

32. Improvements

33. Materials Testing Environment
• MISSE is fixed to the exterior of the ISS
• Experiments endure extreme levels of:
– atomic oxygen​
– Ultraviolet (UV) radiation​
– ionizing radiation​
– ultrahigh vacuum (UHV)​
– charged particles​
– thermal cycles​
– electromagnetic radiation​
– micrometeoroids
• All with little-to-no contamination
• MISSE yields accelerated and accurate testing results for experiments varying
from space suits and flight hardware to car paint and electronics

34. Location

35. Enhanced Services
• Contamination Protection (Closure during contamination-contributing
events and going to and from space)
• Temperature Data
• Solar Angle Data for Zenith (deep space facing) carriers
• Contamination Monitoring
• Orbital Parameters (ISS location
around the Earth)
• ISS orientation in its orbit
• Monthly Photographs
• UV Sensor

36. New Options- Services
• Telescience Resource Kit (TReK)
• Data and Power Connections
• Ground Services – Gas Purge, Storage
• Sensor suite- Atomic Oxygen, Radiation, Contamination, Solar

37. Benefits of Materials Testing
in Space
• Product discriminator (Space Tested)
• Affordable
• Accelerate corrosion processes utilizing Space Environment for
expedited results​
• Almost impossible to duplicate all aspects of the space environment at
the same time on the ground​
– Combined action of atomic oxygen, thermal cycling, radiation,
ultrahigh vacuum unique to Space​
• Atomic oxygen corrosion - Found in Space but not typically found on
the earth​
• Long duration simulated Space environment would be expensive on
the ground and could exceed the cost of actual Space environment
testing​

38. Next Steps
• Through our privately-owned MISSE Facility, you can send your
sample/experiment/payload to the ISS
• Evaluate the performance, stability, and long-term survivability of
materials and components
• We are scheduled to launch the facility and a series of experiments
in September 2017 on SpaceX 13
• Currently accepting commercial clients

39. BLUE ORIGIN:
GRADATIM
FEROCITER
Presented to:
ISS R&D Conference
July 12, 2016

40. BLUE ORIGIN OVERVIEW
 Blue Origin has a long-term vision of increasing the
number of people that can fly to space
 Founded by Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of
Amazon.com
 Significant private investment to date
 600+ employees
• Kent, WA – design, fab and assembly
• Van Horn, TX – engine and suborbital flight test
• Cape Canaveral, FL – orbital launch site
 Liquid rocket engine development
• BE-3 hydrogen engine – 110,000-lbf thrust
• BE-4 LNG engine – 550,000-lbf thrust
 Suborbital New Shepard vehicle
• First to land vertically from space – Nov. 2015
• First to reuse booster – Jan. 2016 & Apr. 2016
 Orbital vehicle planned for later this decade
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41. INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT
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 Blue’s incremental development plan includes:
• Reusable systems to increase reliability and lower
operating costs
• Vertical landing for recovery and reuse
• Suborbital demonstration of technologies for orbital
flight
 New Shepard system in flight testing stage
• Propulsion Module
• Crew Capsule
• First Full System Test – Apr. 2015
• Launch & PM Landing – Nov. 2015, Jan. 2016,
Apr. 2016, June 2016
 Orbital Transportation System
• First launch later this decade
• Reusable first stage with vertical landing
• Expendable upper stage
• Powered by Blue Origin BE-4 and BE-3U engines
• Launch from LC-36 in Florida
• Booster stage produced in Florida near launch
facility
Reusabl
e First
Stage
Expendable
Upper
Stage
Space
Vehicle
Orbital
Transportation
System
Suborbital
New Shepard
System
Crew
Capsule
Propulsio
n Module

42. HISTORIC ROCKET LANDING – NOV 23, 2015
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329,839 ft
(100.5 km)
Mach 3.7
Flawless BE-3
Performance
Clean Separation
Booster Landing
on Pad
Smooth Capsule
Touchdown

43. ASTRONAUT EXPERIENCE
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Capsule
 Up to six astronauts
• Multiple capsule configurations
 Largest windows in spaceflight history
 Full-envelope escape system
Flight
 11 min for complete flight
 Flight over 100 km
 Weightlessness for approximately 4 min

44. SUBORBITAL RESEARCH CAPABILITIES
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 100 km apogee
 ~3 mins of milli-g accelerations
 Blue Origin payload system or custom
 Nominal access L-4 and R+4 hours
 Sales and integration with NanoRacks
Initial Capabilities
 Up to six astronauts and/or payload stacks
 Access to large windows
 Payload access L-30 mins and R+20 mins
 Additional possibilities as demand grows:
• External mounting and deployment
• Science-quality window inserts
• Capsule replacement payloads
Future Capabilities

45. FIRST NEW SHEPARD PAYLOADS
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 Joshua Colwell, UCF
 Investigating regolith impacts
 4 Single Payload Lockers
COLLIDE
 Dan Durda, SwRI
 Investigating settling of rocky soil on asteroids and
other low-g environments
 1 Single Payload Locker
BORE (Box of Rocks Experiment)

46. SUBORBITAL AS A PIPELINE TO ORBIT
 Perfect for new users, risk reduction, and fast iteration
• From concept to flight in weeks to months
• Lower cost
• Commercially friendly
• Fewer hardware constraints
• Frequent reflights available
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47. Erika Wagner
Business Development Manager
253-437-9620
payloads@blueorigin.com