Commercial Space Race
A slide from my talk tomorrow at the SmallSat Symposium: http://www.smallsatshow.com/?page_id=18
(then comes the CEO of NewSpace Global, Mr. Dick Rocket. Seriously.)
The measure of American space launch competitiveness is commercial launch market share, since it is a globally competitive market. From 1980 to 2010, U.S. market share declined from 100% to 0% for all commercial satellite launches, even from U.S. satellite companies. And then SpaceX entered the market.
And a new report just came out tabulating that 2015 was a a banner year for venture investment in space companies, exceeding all prior years combined:
http://fortune.com/2016/02/22/vcs-invested-more-in-space-startups-last-year/
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