Space
The global space industry is opening new markets and transforming our economy. Valued at nearly $450 billion and growing, the space industry is driving exhilarating technological progress that is helping advance many other industries, such as telecommunications, defense, bioscience, manufacturing, and energy exploration.
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How Nuclear Power Could Transform Space Exploration
Amy C. Roma, Global Energy Practice Leader at Hogan Lovells, outlines the use cases of nuclear power in space at the Global Aerospace Summit 2024.
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As Congress takes up the annual defense budget, it is worth acknowledging the comfort and quality of life to which we are accustomed owes its legacy in no small part to the collaborative force of the greatest public-private partnership in American history: the defense-industrial base.
By: Christian Zur As Congress takes up the annual defense budget, it is worth acknowledging the comfort and quality of life to which we are accustomed owes its legacy in no small part to the collaborative force of the greatest public-private partnership in American history: the defense-industrial base.
At the edge of the human frontier, moving at more than 17,000 miles an hour, the formation of entire new industries is underway.
The collective goal must be the safe and efficient operation of platforms across all users.
Over the decades of human space travel, thousands of objects are now in orbit above the earth. They include working satellites and the International Space Station, but they also include old, out-of-commission satellites, used rocket components, and even a wrench and toothbrush.
The April 2019 Defense and Aerospace Export Council newsletter.
The U.S. must continue to lead, develop, and deploy space systems at increasing rates of innovation and efficiency.
Despite the chasm across parties and branches of government, this is one area of shared purpose and worthy of progress.
If it's true that businesses benefit from certainty, then U.S. space companies that rely on the federal government have a big problem.
