Jonathan McDowell has been part of the world's knowledge of the world for more than four decades. His monthly newsletter on industry – Jonathan space report – Details all the launches to come and has become an essential resource for everyone, passionate amateurs to space professionals, while its library of information on the space industry and the ephemeral, which occupy around 90 square meters, is one of the most extensive private collections of the subject in the world. But today, monitoring the space operations of commercial companies is more difficult than spying organizations, explains McDowell. “The skills that I developed by trying to understand what the NRO and the CIA and so on were up to the task, and Russian information came very useful to determine what commercial enterprises do.”
