neubjr
April 10th, 2003, 05:31 PM
Futron corporation just completed a fairly interesting study on the future of space launch markets. Here is a link to their study:
http://www.futron.com/pdf/ASCENTWhitePaper.pdf
It is very interesting to see what they found out, especially if you are interested in the future of space commerce and space launch markets etc.. etc... They found that many emerging markets will be very effected by lowering launch costs, and also many other things, I guess just read the study results they post here, and then say what you think if you have thoughts.
Personnally I think it is great to actually show that the new emerging markets will definitely benefit by reducing launch costs. The current markets may not be helped, but it will aid in sparking new markets.
One thing that I found very interesting in itself is that they showed that if an RLV was developed the Industry revenues would drastically drop! I see this being incentive for current companies to not attempt at producing an RLV. If they produced and RLV their overall revenue would drop instead of increasing. I find this very disturbing in its own. Any thoughts on that?
Joshua.
http://www.futron.com/pdf/ASCENTWhitePaper.pdf
It is very interesting to see what they found out, especially if you are interested in the future of space commerce and space launch markets etc.. etc... They found that many emerging markets will be very effected by lowering launch costs, and also many other things, I guess just read the study results they post here, and then say what you think if you have thoughts.
Personnally I think it is great to actually show that the new emerging markets will definitely benefit by reducing launch costs. The current markets may not be helped, but it will aid in sparking new markets.
One thing that I found very interesting in itself is that they showed that if an RLV was developed the Industry revenues would drastically drop! I see this being incentive for current companies to not attempt at producing an RLV. If they produced and RLV their overall revenue would drop instead of increasing. I find this very disturbing in its own. Any thoughts on that?
Joshua.