Description
This course provides a comprehensive perspective on the global space economy by evaluating the entire market ecosystem and then focusing on the growing role of space entrepreneurship. This course begins with a history of development of government and
commercial space programs and proceeds from there to undertake comprehensive analyses of the major space market segments including consideration of: market attractiveness, market size and growth, market actors, upstream and downstream markets, and the analytic tools to perform market analyses. Fundamentals of entrepreneurship and finance will be covered, as well as new modes of iterative system development, new customers, new sources of capital and new regulatory systems.