Research and Markets: Something New Under The Sun: The Space Investment Report 2013
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/lc4689/something_new) has announced the addition of the “Something New Under The Sun: The Space Investment Report 2013” book to their offering.
Humans have been traveling to space for a half-century.
In that time many people have made money from the space business, but only as shareholders of government contractors or specialised niche players such as communication satellite owners or insurers.
For unique historical reasons, a field requiring unusual boldness and scope of vision has become dominated by a small, closed group of corporations known for slowness, caution, and risk aversion. This in turn has created an industry dominated by high costs, inefficiency, and glacial technological change.
A small but growing group of entrepreneurs have understood these constraints and have concluded that the real (in fact, enormous) benefits of space will only be harvested by disruptive technologies and innovative business tactics, deployed in the manner of Silicon Valley and financed by venturesome capitalists.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Introduction: The Economic Promise of Space
2. Space: A Basic Primer
What is space, orbital vs. suborbital, what are the basic useful orbits, space stations, useable planetary bodies, and regions of the solar system.
3. Economic Uses of Space To Date and Barriers to New Applications
Space launch, communications satellites, earth observation (remote sensing), materials research, human spaceflight, orbital accommodation.
4. Why Space is Hard and Expensive and What Has to Change to Make It Cheaper and Easier
Limits of government operation, regulatory and legal barriers, military legacies, reusability, frequency of operations, material limits, propulsion limits.
5. What’s Happening Now That Might Make a Difference.
New Space economics, multiple paths of experimentation, government transition from operator to customer, new emerging markets, new technologies in development.
6. From Now to 2050: Three Scenarios For Space Development
Business as usual; moderate breakout; runaway development.
7. Risk Factors: The Big Obstacles and How to Assess Them
The five big concerns: Capital risk, regulatory/political risk, market risk, team risk, technology risk.
8. How to Develop a Personal Investment Strategy for Space
9. The Big Upside
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