Between advancements in manufacturing and greater private investment in space exploration, living and working off-planet could soon become a reality. A new interview outlines the next phase of extraterrestrial innovation: a space economy that functions for space-bound purposes, rather than for Earth-bound needs, as satellites do. But what will a space economy actually look like? Explore these insights on the implications of a space economy and other space-industry trends to find answers to the questions:
- Who is funding space exploration and colonization?
- What will happen to the debris we produce? Will it fall back to Earth?
- How feasible is a future of space tourism?
Lockheed Martin’s Joe Landon on the emerging space economy
Space: Investment shifts from GEO to LEO and now beyond
Wall Street to Mission Control: Can space tourism pay off?
Building a better planet with satellite data
Look out below: What will happen to the space debris in orbit?
R&D for space: Who is actually funding it?
Digital: The next horizon for global aerospace and defense
Seeing Earth from space: The power of satellite images
Expectations versus reality: Commercial satellite constellations