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Robert N. Eberhart, PhD, is an associate professor of management and the faculty director of the Ahlers Center for International Business at the Knauss School of Business of University of San Diego. He is the author of several academic publications and books. He is also part of Oxford University’s Smart Space Initiative and contributed to Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory. Before his academic career, Prof. Eberhart founded and ran a successful company in Japan.

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Space is hard. There is no excuse for pretending it’s easy.

by Robert N. Eberhart June 30, 2025June 25, 2025

The headlines in the space industry over the past month have delivered a sobering reminder: space is not forgiving, and certainly not friendly to overpromising entrepreneurs. From iSpace’s second failed […]


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