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Have you ever heard of a Space Accountant?

Have you ever heard of a Space Accountant?

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This truly shows how diverse and what a huge selection of space careers there are out there! Tom works for a Technology Finance team and works with billions of dollars to fund research, build satellites and keep discoveries going.

  • Think about a satellite – what would it need to be built? Try and make a ‘shopping list’, using research to help you.
  • Think like an investor – why invest in space and satellites? Explain why you think people use their money in this way. What would the risks be?
  • To show us how big a billion is, Tom explains that a billion seconds would last over 31 years! Can you find the next largest value, or relationships between smaller and larger numbers?

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