Small satellites allow a space economy in which not only powers or large companies can participate. Until 2013, Vicente Díaz and Miguel Ángel Vázquez worked making photovoltaic solar panels to produce electricity on Earth.

The entry of Chinese companies left them out on the streets and posed a dilemma. “There were colleagues who switched to gas and oil, but coming from renewables it was not what I most wanted,” says Dísaz. The Small Satellites and Services International Forum (SSSIF) was held in Malaga this week.