Emerging Lunar Economy

  • Stella Tkatchova

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This video seminar focuses on presenting the fundamentals of an emerging lunar economy, the opportunities and challenges of In-Situ Resources Utilization. It presents the future trends and stakeholders in developing new lunar space markets and the expected direct/indirect economic benefits from lunar exploration.

The author looks into the near future of 2035 and discusses topics like

  • habitation and research on board the Lunar Orbital Platform- Gateway station and in the Moon Village,

  • the collaboration of Space agencies with private companies setting the basis for the creation of an emerging lunar economy,

  • the involvement of NewSpace companies in the search for lunar resources,

  • energy supply for habitats and rockets,

  • a robotic space cargo infrastructure,

  • a lunar construction industry and

  • space tourism.

Dr. Tkatchova reveals that the space resources utilization industry is expected to generate a market revenue of 73 to 170 Billion Euros from 2018-2045. She discusses how competition between launch service providers, satellite manufacturers and operators, will result in reduced time in qualifying and flying payloads and will create opportunities and challenges in developing the emerging Lunar Economy.

The author argues that NewSpace companies will need to discover, identify and develop emerging lunar space markets and attract Customers, while space agencies will have to define the direct and indirect economic benefits from Lunar exploration to secure political, strategic and financial support. She further argues that ISRU/Lunar exploitation, lunar telecommunications and in-orbit satellite servicing are markets worth exploring and concludes that NewSpace companies will need to discover, identify and develop emerging lunar space markets and attract Customers.

This video seminar is targeted at space engineers, space economists, planers and politicians working at the vision of an emerging lunar economy.

Introduction

Overview

This video presents the fundamentals of an emerging lunar economy and the opportunities and challenges of In-Situ Resources Utilization.

About The Author

Stella Tkatchova

Dr. Stella Tkatchova is a project manager in the European Space Industry. She writes books and articles about the importance of commercialisation of space technologies and solutions. She previously worked as project manager for Thales Alenia Space and managed long-term research innovation projects for the European Commission (EC). In the early days of her career she worked as a contractor at the European Space Agency(ESA). She was awarded a PhD by the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU-Delft on commercialisation of space technology and also holds a Master of Space Science degree, from International Space University (ISU). Several years ago she founded and was the editor of the International Journal of Space Technology Management & Innovation (IJSTMI).

 

About this video

Author(s)
Stella Tkatchova
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69134-9
Online ISBN
978-3-030-69134-9
Total duration
49 min
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Copyright information
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

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Video Transcript

Hello, my name is Stella Tkatchova, and I write books and articles about the commercialization of space technologies. Today, I would like to introduce the new webinar about the emerging lunar economy. The webinar will start with a short introduction of the topics, which will be presented during the webinar.

In this webinar, we will be discussing the emerging lunar economy in 2035, the space agency’s visions, and also programs for lunar exploration, the lunar resources, and the ways of utilizing these resources, the lunar space market and applications, the innovative concepts of new space companies, the challenges and opportunities, the direct and indirect economic benefits from lunar exploration.