Space sector set for a boom, not ‘race’
Monday, April 1, 2019
Subject
Outlook for the space sector.
Significance
Use of outer space is proliferating, spurred by new technologies, falling costs and supportive government policies.
Impacts
- Space governance is unlikely to improve without a crisis or significant commercial vested interests favouring change.
- Human-made debris in orbit is the greatest threat to space development.
- Development of space weapons will be largely covert or unacknowledged, and not a high priority.