Several commercial launch facilities are in development in the United States. U.S. federal government space policy appears to have had little influence on this development. Is the federal government performing the correct role within the space launch enterprise; should its role be larger, smaller, or different? A larger role would be to implement a government technology policy aimed at strengthening selected U.S. firms' ability to compete in world markets. A smaller role would be to leave the enterprise uninfluenced and unregulated. The federal government has had limited success in encouraging commercial firms to use federally owned launch facilities, in part because they have not been constructed as infrastructure, and are therefore relatively inflexible and inefficient. What specific actions should the federal government take to make the total launch enterprise more efficient?
Federal Space Policy and the Development of Commercial Launch Facilities
Sixth ASCE Specialty Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space ; 1998 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Space 98 ; 674-680
1998-04-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Federal Space Policy and the Development of Commercial Launch Facilities
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
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|Development of space launch facilities.
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