The Space Economy in Figures
Key priorities include maintaining the continuity and quality of government civilian missions, levelling the playing field for private actors entering the market, and securing the orbital environment for future generations. This edition of the Space Economy in Figures delves into these topics, drawi...
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792117006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- ISO country codes
- Executive summary
- The space sector already contributes to tackling global challenges, but more needs to be done
- More applications are in the pipeline, thanks to government missions and new private sector investment
- Greater reliance on space assets and higher rates of activity create additional challenges
- 1 Space technologies are coming of age
- A growing appreciation of space-based solutions by decision makers worldwide
- Explosive growth in the number of objects launched into space
- New opportunities for economic growth in certain applications but not everywhere
- Uneven growth of the space economy
- Space industry segments are deeply heterogeneous
- Variable exposure to impacts of COVID-19 and other economic shocks
- More disruption on the horizon
- Considerable and sustained lowering of launch prices?
- Satellite connectivity reaching end users?
- An emerging in-orbit economy?
- Optimistic but uncertain outlook for space investments
- Sustained government space budgets most of the time…
- …but uncertain future for selected civilian activities
- Improved access to private investments
- Policy actions for sustained and sustainable growth of the space economy
- Ensuring the environmental sustainability of space activities
- Ensuring adequate levels of public funding
- Building partnerships to address mutual challenges
- References
- 2 Space as a provider of critical data and innovative applications
- Introduction
- A dramatic increase in satellite observations and data analysis
- A new era has started with more actors and higher-performance satellites
- Growing number of government actors, adding new capabilities
- More numerous, more precise and more diverse observations and measurements.
- Sharing satellite data as never before
- A growing number of applications with tangible societal benefits
- Recording the accumulation of greenhouse gases from space
- Satellite data and "green finance"
- Satellite data as open-source intelligence
- Policy implications
- Mounting budgetary pressure on government missions
- Managing government purchases of commercial data
- Tracking and increasing user uptake
- References
- 3 Managing a growing space economy
- Introduction
- An increasingly diverse population of space actors with growing capabilities
- First come - first served with Earth's orbits up for grabs
- Strong growth in launch activity among "new" actors
- Renewed interest in launch opportunities across the world
- Ever more spaceports
- A growing number of dedicated launchers for nanosatellites
- Growing pressure on medium- and heavy-lift launchers
- More heavy-lift launchers to support exploration and space infrastructure development
- Orbit occupancy is becoming more diverse and commercial, but also more concentrated
- Growing competition for orbital slots and frequencies
- Inequitable distribution of slots and frequencies?
- Fears of interference and terrestrial competition for spectrum
- Increased appetite for space-based "real estate" and resources
- Policy implications
- Ensuring "healthy" levels of competition
- Reinforcing efforts to better identify and track the outcomes and impacts of space activities
- References
- 4 The growth and sustainability of the space economy under threat
- Introduction
- The entrepreneurial segments of the space industry ecosystem are vulnerable to economic shocks
- Ensuring sustained and diverse recruitment to the sector will be a challenge
- Space sector employment
- Recruitment and skills
- Persistent gender gap in the space sector.
- Global space infrastructure facing ever-more natural and human-made threats
- Natural threats
- Human-made threats
- Space activities produce debris and other types of pollution
- Space debris
- Light pollution and radio interference affecting astronomical research
- Growing focus on atmospheric pollution
- Policy implications
- References
- 5 Guide to the profiles
- "Fast facts" indicators
- Space budget trends and main programmes
- Top applicants of space-related patents
- Space-related scientific excellence, international collaboration and production
- Space-related official development assistance commitments
- References
- 6 Canada
- References
- 7 France
- References
- 8 Germany
- References
- 9 Italy
- References
- 10 Korea
- References
- 11 The Netherlands
- References
- 12 Norway
- References
- 13 Switzerland
- References
- 14 United Kingdom
- References
- 15 United States
- References.
