What is the NSG PTC? This particular NSG Index tracks Publically Traded Companies (PTC) positioned to profit from NewSpace. Here are three companies on the right track: Amazon, Google, and Cisco.

Amazon: This PTC offers cloud computing for NASA’s Mars Curiosity images.

Google: This PTC is developing self-driving cars, has its hand in the lunar challenge, and constantly seeks out new opportunities.

Cisco: This company started the IRIS (Internet Router in Space) program, developed by Rick Sanford whose new NSG 100 company, Space Ground Amalgam, just won the Business Plan Competition at NewSpace 2012.

–NSG Analysts