Above: Mike Safyan of Planet Labs talks about Disrupting Space at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna. Image Credit: Twitter/@weltraumaeffchenNo doubt about it. October was a tough month for space enthusiasts and the world’s private space industry. The explosion of the Antares rocket, which was headed to the International Space Station, was followed just a few days later by the crash of Virgin Galactic’s and Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipTwo space plane.