1. PANORAMA OF SPACE ECONOMY
- K. Sai Malleswar

2. What is Space Economy?
 The full range of activities and the use of resources
that create value and benefits to human beings in
the course of exploring, understanding, managing
and utilizing space.
 Includes
 All public and private factors involved in developing,
providing and using space-related products and services
 The scientific knowledge generated by space research
 Space derived products and services

3. Upstream Vs Downstream
“The Space Economy at a Glance (2011),” OECD

4. How does Space stimulate Economic growth?
• The business that are dependent on the space
satellites :
• Metrology • Internet
• Agriculture planning • TV and radio broad casting
• Irrigation planning • Telecommunication
• Disaster management • Transportation
• Medicine • Town or Urban planning
•Costal & Forest conservation • Transportation and

5. An Engine of Economic Growth
“The Space Economy at a Glance (2011),” OECD

7. Special Features of Space Economy
Access to space is costly & involves
technical risks
The viability of space enabled services
requires large user markets
Space enabled services have special
attributes as economic goods
Space is a Government dominated activity

8. A Prospective View of the Space Sector

9. Activities of the Satellites
“The Space Economy at a Glance (2011),” OECD

10. The readiness factors (inputs)
 Governmental budgets for space activities:
Civilian and Military space programs
 Capital stocks:
Assets in orbit and on the ground
Difficult to Estimate
 Human capital: India ~ 15,800, USA ~ 1,70,000
(36 % Indians), China ~ 50,000, ESA ~ 31,000
 Investment of Tax payer funds

11. Estimates of space budgets of G20 countries,
2010
Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/888932400209

12. The intensity factors (outputs)
 The manufacturing space industry
 The satellite telecommunications sector
 The satellite earth observation sector
 Insurance market for space activities
 International trade in selected space products
 Innovation for future economic growth: Patents
 World wide space launch activities
 Space exploration activities

13. Public-Private Partnerships
 Private sector gains by having access to
IP, facilities, expertise, resources etc.
 Government gains by having access to
private sector expertise, resources,
innovation etc.
 A common man gains by getting
improved government systems/services.
 Traditional roles of Government and
private sector are beginning to shift.

14. The impacts of the space economy
Socio-Economic impacts from space programmes
Indirect Industrial effects
Economic growth (regional, national)
Efficiency/productivity gains

15. Why to go into space when we have so many
problems here on the Earth?
SPIN-OFFS
Source: NASA

16. SPACE ECONOMY OF INDIA
 Launch Vehicles:
 PSLV (D1 to C21)
 GSLV (D1 to F06)
 GSLV-MKIII
 Satellites:
 Geo stationary: INSAT-
IA to GSAT-XII
 Earth Observation
Satellite: Bhaskara-I to
RISAT-I
 Experimental satellites:
 Aryabhatta to Youthsat
 Space Missions:
 SROSS-I to
Chandrayaan-I

17. India’s 5-year budget plans for space
(from 1974 to 2012)

18. SPACE ECONOMY OF INDIA

20. New Challenges
To speed up Globalization of space industry
Ensuring access to radio spectrum
Cheaper access of the orbits
Attracting and retaining workers in Space
programmes
Competition from terrestrial alternatives

21. Space Tourism in 2030

22. Bibliography

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