I was delighted to read about Caneus, which fosters international collaborative aerospace development, has a major project bringing together many countries to share space on satellites. They are using a fractional ownership model to manage the use of the satellite, with 50+ owners; this will need to be a well written contract.
I think there is enormous scope for sharing much more, enabling people to achieve all kinds of objectives so much more cost effectively. It’s good to see Caneus taking this on, so many people don’t even consider collaborating or sharing, or if they do, dismiss it as just too difficult.
We have all kinds of assets being shared on yours2share, maybe there’ll be satellites too soon!