Space economy

Op-ed | Building a robust space economy requires more partnerships

by Stan Shull — September 22, 2020

While public-private partnerships are getting a lot of attention, the space industry has not traditionally leveraged non-supply chain partnerships as frequently or as fluidly as some industries.

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Commerce Department to develop new estimate of the size of the space economy

by Jeff Foust — January 2, 2020

An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce is developing its own estimate of the size of the space industry, the most authoritative effort to date to measure space’s role in the broader economy.

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Foust Forward | Bursting the space bubble before it even inflates

by Jeff Foust — July 9, 2019

One of the central beliefs of advocates of the growing commercial space industry is the concept of the trillion-dollar space economy. What if those numbers — both the current and future size of the space economy — are way too high?

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Op-ed | Toward a robust space economy

by Ian Fichtenbaum — September 21, 2018

It is evident we need to examine how to build a robust space economy and infrastructure, one built to accommodate future growth.

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