Spacetech investment group Seraphim Space has established its Global Space Futures Advisory Council to address key strategic, commercial and geopolitical opportunities and challenges facing the space sector.
Bringing together leading space specialists from across the global space ecosystem, the council includes former astronauts, space entrepreneurs, senior investors and policy leaders with experience spanning commercial space, national programmes, defence, climate science and global communications.
Initial members are globally representative and include Anousheh Ansari, CEO at XPRIZE and the first female private space explorer; and Masayasu Ishida, cofounder and CEO at SPACETIDE and programme director at the Japan Space Strategy Fund.
The council has been established to provide an internationally representative forum capable of shaping policy thinking and strengthening cross-border collaboration. Its creation is in response to the global space sector’s ongoing rapid evolution, with space activity becoming increasingly strategic, commercial and geopolitical.
Its work will centre on structural questions expected to shape the space sector over the coming decade. These include how space infrastructure intersects with national security and energy resilience, and the expanding role of space-derived data in climate monitoring, communications and artificial intelligence.
The space sector has recorded its strongest investment year on record. Investment reached $3.8bn (£2.8bn) in Q4 2025, bringing total funding over the past twelve months to $12.4bn (£9.14bn), up from an annual investment of $1bn (£737m) a decade ago.
“Space now touches every continent, an expanding number of countries and many of the world’s most critical sectors, from communications and energy to security, climate monitoring and economic development,” says Candace Johnson, chair of the Seraphim Global Space Futures Advisory Council.
“This [council’s role] is not only to consider the scale of opportunity ahead, but to engage seriously with the complex challenges, from sustainability and regulation to security and international coordination, that will shape the next decade of space activity.”
Last month, the UK Space Agency committed to working closely and exchanging information with its equivalent in Ukraine.
