New Space Economy: Balancing Security And Development

The term “New Space Economy” (NSE) has become one of the most prominent buzzwords of the past decade. Space has always captured the human imagination as a final frontier for exploration and discovery. It’s often seen as a pristine domain for science and international cooperation, exemplified by missions that send rovers to Mars or telescopes to peer into the universe’s origins. Yet, alongside this peaceful pursuit of knowledge, space has been an arena for national security and military interests since the first satellite reached orbit. The technologies that enable one often enable the other. This overlap is the world of…