Space Economy
The space economy covers commercial activity beyond the atmosphere: launch, satellites, communications, earth observation and the services built on them.
Why It Matters
Falling launch costs turned space from a state programme into a supply chain, with connectivity and imaging as its first large markets.
Related Terms
- Deep TechDeep tech describes companies built on substantial scientific or engineering advances, where the risk is whether the technology works at all, not only whether customers want it.
- R&DResearch and development is a company's spending on creating new products, processes and knowledge, from early research to engineering a product for manufacture.
- Materials ScienceMaterials science is the study and design of materials and their properties, and the work of making them manufacturable at scale.
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