Commercial Space In The Age Of “New Space”, Reusable Rockets and The Ongoing Tech Revolutions

[摘要] A plethora of converging frontier technologies are reducing the costs of space access and utilization, enabling major growth going forward in commercial space, both in orbits up to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and in “Deep Space” beyond GEO. This paper reviews these frontier technologies and enabling technological approaches, the landscape of enabled emerging commercial applications, their issues, and in some cases their competition and outlook, along with the attendant “hard problems”. Major issues include mitigation of the inspace human health issues, reliability and safety, details regarding on body space resources, and a closed competitive and timely business case.

[发布日期] 2018-12-01

[学科分类] 航空航天科学

[关键词] SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION;SPACE MANUFACTURING;COST REDUCTION;GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS;SPACE TRANSPORTATION;PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS;ROBOTICS;EXTRATERRESTRIAL RESOURCES;DEEP SPACE