Saudi Neo Space Group, an entrepreneur’s fantasy: 12 people at 2 conference tables with blank sheets of paper and $2 billion

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — Saudi Arabia’s Neo Space Group (NSG), created by the nation’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), is designed to  jump-start the Saudi space sector by putting telecommunications and Earth observation under one well-financed roof, much as its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, has done with Space42.

Space42 combines two publicly traded, revenue-generating companies in satellite fixed and mobile telecommunications provider Yahsat with data analytics services provider Bayanat.

Saudi Arabia is starting from further back in . . .

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