Nasa too will want to review the flight data before deciding whether to release more seed funding to Orbital, and to clear the company for a Cygnus freighter demonstration mission to the ISS. All being well, this next demonstration could occur in late June or early July.
Combined with a new survey of the top 30 US angel investment groups that shows a marked increase across the board in seed stage valuations for startups, it is clear that the innovation economy is continuing its steady growth that began over three years ago.