I sat down with Nicolas Peter, who is a long-term veteran of ESA, having worked in the Director General’s office, among other roles. He currently serves as Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at the International Space University (ISU) and also as ISU’s head of their new Space Policy and Entrepreneurship Lab. We discuss a range of topics including Europe’s role in space, space entrepreneurship and ISU.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:46 Bio

3:06 European space conference

5:50 New faces at space conferences

8:09 Space in Europe

15:51 Space in the capital markets

21:12 VC funds

26:40 Space ecosystem Europe vs. U.S.

31:55 ISU

35:45 Space data use cases

40:36 ISU transitioning alongside the space sector

46:21 Futurism

48:05 Sci-Fi