Take a Sillicon Valley tech startup, collaborate with venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Ventures out of Hong Kong, mix in some of the world’s most advanced AI – artificial intelligence software. The result: Transplanetary, a wildly ambitious and transformative company on a blazing mission to make create an eco-system of business models for newspace. Erika Ilves, Co-Founder, Transplanetary and Chief Strategy Officer, Shackleton Energy Company.

1. Going transplanetary
Erika Ilves, co-founder, Transplanetary
Strategy summit, stavanger, Jan 29, 2015
Credit: Bryan Versteeg, spacehabs.com

2. Something incredible
just happened At the edge of the Milky Way.

3. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

4. humans.
So much potential. So little time.

6. "Now is the watershed of Cosmic history…
Behind us yawn the chasms of the primordial past, when this
universe was a dead and silent place; before us rise the broad
sunlit uplands of a living cosmos.
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will
be decided. Life — the ultimate experiment — will either
explode into space and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm
of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle,
and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in
impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope."
Marshall T. Savage
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, 1994

7. We know what we must do.

8. "In the long run, a single-planet species will not survive.”
Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
2006

9. “Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be
endangered by impacts from space, every surviving
civilization is obliged to become spacefaring—not because of
exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical
reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is
at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to
venture to other worlds.”
Carl Sagan
1994

10. “The long-term survival of humanity, and of the plant and
animal life that we cherish on Earth, can best be assured by
building colonies dispersed throughout our solar system and
beyond.”
Gerard o’neill
1976

11. "Remember this: once the human race is established
on more than one planet and especially, in more than one
solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the
human race.”
Robert A. Heinlein
1961

12. “This is the goal: To make available for life every place where
life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet
uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.”
Hermann oberth
1957

13. "Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and
have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All
kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth. . . . We have said a
great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but
not all can be said or even imagined.”
Konstantin tsiolkovsky
1929

14. "Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution
of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in
aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race
may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more
western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of
natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to
people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the
shining isles of space. ”
Henry david thoreau
1843

15. so what have we done in a hundred years?

16. As of Jan 23, 2015
people in space 547
man years in space123
currently in space 6
Source: worldspaceflight.com

17. As of Jan 23, 2015
Source: worldspaceflight.com
18orbited
12walked
0
529100-450 km

18. "The regret on our side is,
they used to say years ago,
we are reading about you in
science class. Now they say,
we are reading about you in
history class."
Neil armstrong, july 1999

19. Why so little progress?

20. It’s hard.

22. It’s expensive.

23. apollo
$164 Billion
iss
$150 Billion
SLS
$30 Billion

24. We don’t care about our extinction
All That much.

25. Availability bias
“The last time I checked,
Humans have not gone extinct”

27. We do seem to care
about prestige & military dominance.

28. Image: Kerbal Space Program

31. We care about science…
…unless we need the money for something else.

33. We care about doing more and more
With less and less.
On Earth.

35. A path that pays for itself
is the path that will happen.

36. Enter commercial space.
Aka “new space.”

37. 1,200satellites
$200 billion market
92launches in 2014
$6 billion market

38. SPACE internet Real time eyes on earth
High altitude joy rides Anywhere in under 4 hours

39. It’s all wonderful.

40. But none of this calls for people to live in space
or go beyond the geostationary orbit.

41. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt
A question of galactic significance:

42. What creates value on earth,
requires humans in the loop and/or
Pushes us beyond the geostationary orbit?

44. …and a handful of space-based business models.

45. Space tourism Micro-g research Re-fueling stations
Space mining Space-based solar power Manufacturing in space

46. Space & market potential maybe infinite…

47. …But investor understanding & attention is finite.

49. These business cases make real sense
if funded together.

50. Space tourism Micro-g
research
Re-fueling stations
Space mining Space-based
solar power
Manufacturing
in space

53. We need to be less like space cowboys
And more like space musketeers.

55. An ecosystem problem
can only be solved by going meta.

56. How to make an ecosystem of
These Space-based business models investible?

57. For starters, just bloody explain
this whole space thing better.

58. Meta idea #1:
Space sector visualization and analytics platform

62. VITAL’s SIBLING for Space was conceived over lunch.
We named him spock*.
*Space program on ontologically computed knowledge

63. It takes time to train your AI
• Space jargon
• 2,000 space entities
• 900,000 people
• All space related patents
• Hundreds of sources
• Asking the right questions
• Predictive algorithms

64. Meta idea #1: version 2.0
Mission control for humanity’s expansion off Earth,
Manned by spock

65. ABOUT BLOG
Explore past,
present & future
space
missions
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industry
Check out
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Invest in
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Volunteer,
crowdfund
or work in
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Greetings, I am SPOCK.
I man this Mission Control for
human civilization’s expansion
into space. What do you want to do?

66. July 2015

67. Ecosystem-level solutionS
3 meta ideas
MISSION CONTROL
Web intelligence platform for
space investors, analysts and
enthusiasts giving a real-time
overview of the global space
ecosystem, incl. predictions of
future space milestones,
visualization of future markets and
investment recommendations.
MARKETPLACE
3rd party B2B global marketplace
for space systems, sub-systems
and components (“Amazon 3rd
party marketplace for space”).
Could evolve into a platform for
sharing and manufacturing high-
volume aerospace components
and sub-systems (“Amazon 3D
printing shop for space”)
SPACE DEVELOPMENT
BANK
A global facility designed to fund
the currently unfundable space
infrastructure projects. Modelled
on the concept of development
banking but applied to the sector,
not developing world nations.
(“EBRD for space”)
Visualize space markets Create new funding mechanismsDrive out costs

68. We will pivot
but will not let go of the bone.

69. Space settlement

70. Find a WAY to go transplanetary
That pays for itself.

71. Sweet dreams are made of these:

72. Credit: NASA

73. Credit: Bryan Versteeg, spacehabs.com

74. Credit: ESA

77. So that one day…

78. "When you look at the stars
and the galaxy, you feel you
are not just from any
particular piece of land,
but from the solar system."
Laurel clark

79. “Because of us, landscapes of radiation blasted waste, will be
miraculously transmuted: Slag will become soil, grass will
sprout, flowers will bloom, and forests will spring up in once
sterile places. Ice, hard as iron, will melt and trickle into pools
where starfish, anemones, and seashells dwell—a whole
frozen universe will thaw and transmogrify, from howling
desolation to blossoming paradise.”
Marshall T. Savage
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, 1994

80. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt

81. transplanetary.com
@transplanetary