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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.

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