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The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity[1] is published annually by the Space Foundation. The Space Report is the definitive overview of the global space industry and serves as a valuable resource for government and business leaders, educators, financial analysts, students, and space-related businesses.

One of the most significant revelations in The Space Report 2010 is that the global space economy for 2009 reached $261.6 billion in government budgets and commercial revenue; almost 40 percent growth in the five years the Space Foundation has been tracking the space economy.

The companies that comprise the Space Foundation Index[2] shared in the general stock market recovery in 2009, returning by mid-March 2010 to the level the Index had been in June 2005. The Index tracks market performance of public companies that derive a significant amount of their revenue from space-related assets and activities.

The Space Report 2010 also chronicles how governments around the world are rethinking longer-term, higher-cost strategic programs. Some countries are flat-lining space funding over the next few years, while others plan to increase spending with the expectation of stimulating their economies with innovation that reaches beyond the space sector.

The continuing, escalating growth of the space economy outside of the U.S. is evident by the addition of data on government space budgets for the European Union, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, Spain, and South Africa in The Space Report 2010.

The new edition also reports that launch rates have grown 42 percent from 2005 to 2009, with payloads launched growing 46 percent. Of the 78 launches reported in 2009, less than a third took place in the United States. Russia led with 37 percent, followed by 31 percent for the U.S., 9 percent for Europe, 8 percent for China, 5 percent for the Sea Launch/Land Launch consortium that comprises U.S., Russian, Ukrainian, and Norwegian interests, and less than 4 percent each for Japan, India, North Korea, South Korea and Iran.

Reflecting the diversification and globalization of space, The Space Report 2010 has also greatly expanded coverage of workforce issues, with new sections on the U.S. civil space workforce, the U.S. military space workforce, and on European and Japanese space employment.

It closes with an Outlook section that forecasts significant roles for commercial enterprise and international partnerships, which will require far more flexible policies and regulations to manage proposed public-private partnerships for programs such as lunar exploration, hosted payloads, and commercial spaceflight.

The Space Report 2010 is the result of extensive research by the Space Foundation's Washington, D.C.-based research and analysis group and a team of independent research organizations, thoroughly examining the state of the space industry. The methodology, which is refined every year, involves identifying, gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing data from publicly available sources, as well as industry publications and reports.

References

  1. ^ http://www.thespacereport.org/
  2. ^ http://www.spacefoundation.org/spaceindex/

 

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