Space-Based Technologies and Commercialized Development: Economic Implications and Benefits (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Stella Tkatchova

• Publisher: Engineering Science Reference
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A new era of space-based technology and interplanetary exploration will produce cost-effective solutions and innovative technologies to fulfill current societal needs.Space-Based Technologies and Commercialized Development: Economic Implications and Benefits introduces the concept of space-based technology commercialization and offers a first-time analysis of plausible opportunities. This essential reference examines the overall marketability of tourism in outer space, including business case studies on celestial solar power and space debris that demonstrate the potential of cosmic technologies in the context of interplanetary business.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Dedication......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgment......Page 20
Commercial Transportation Services......Page 22
Moon and Mars Space Exploration Concepts......Page 51
Space Station Commercialisation......Page 80
Space Industry Market Trends......Page 102
Emerging Markets and Space Applications......Page 141
Competitiveness of Space Industry......Page 165
Space Tourism......Page 185
Space Economics and Benefits......Page 199
An Analysis of Two Space Business Opportunities......Page 227
Glossary......Page 274
About the Contributors......Page 279
Index......Page 282

✦ Subjects

Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика;