DEFINITION AND ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT INDUSTRY, 2006-2013

摘要

Industry trends show increasing diversity among the kinds of companies participating in the commercial spaceflight industry, more aggressive investment by established aerospace primes, an increasing role by NASA in enabling the orbital spaceflight industry, and progress toward commercial suborbital human spaceflight capability. Through exclusive access to proprietary information, this paper presents an uniquely accurate analysis of the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, building upon a dataset that extends back to 2006. The data set is updated through 2013. Since 2006, the market for commercial spaceflight has transitioned from one dominated by development activities funded by investors and governments to an industry realizing meaningful revenues from commercial activities. Revenue from government remains important, and in some cases the government revenue is now coming from programs specifically designed to support this industry. The paper provides quantitative measures of the overall size of the industry by revenue;the amount of investment raised and spent;the relative percentage of investment sources;facility space devoted to these activities;and overall industry employment.