Market Opportunities in Space: The Near Term Roadmap

摘要

The purpose of the following document is to make available to the space community this workshop background information and workshop summary. Resources were not available to update the background material to reflect the full range of rapidly-occurring developments between the November 2001 workshop event and the October 2002 publication of this workshop report. The first part of this examination of space commerce issues provides a brief overview of the current state of the aerospace industry and space commercialization efforts in general. Subsequent sections explore in greater detail the commercialization efforts specifically addressed by each of the panels convened at the November 7, 2001, market opportunities workshop.