Space-based technologies and commercialized development economic implications and benefits /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Tkatchova, Stella, 1973-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Space industrialization.; Benefits of space economics; Commercialization of interplanetary spacecraft technology; Competitiveness in the space industry; Emerging markets and applications; Market trends in the space industry; Space exploration concepts; Space solar power; Space technology commercialization; Space tourism
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"This book introduces the concept of space-based technology commercialization and offers a first-time analysis of plausible opportunities, examining the overall marketability of tourism in outer space, including business case studies on celestial solar power and space debris that demonstrate th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Commercial transportation services / Stella Tkatchova
• 2. Moon and Mars space exploration concepts / Stella Tkatchova, Todome Kazuhide
• 3. Space station commercialization / Stella Tkatchova
• 4. Space industry market trends / Pierre Lionnet, Stella Alexandrova
• 5. Emerging markets and space applications / Stella Tkatchova
• 6. Competitiveness of space industry / Stella Tkatchova
• 7. Space tourism / Michel van Pelt
• 8. Space economics and benefits / Stella Tkatchova
• 9. An analysis of two space business opportunities / Vladimir Atanasov, Gianluigi Baldesi.