This examine researched the renewed curiosity in satellite tv for pc servicing, now known as In-space Servicing, Meeting, and Manufacturing (ISAM), as a expertise enabler to creating an in-space economic system. The U.S. is pursuing an in-space economic system as a modernized means to effectively assist and protect the numerous nationwide dependence on the house area. The examine examined the challenges and enablers related to growing infrastructure to assist an in-space economic system. The analysis started with an exploration of the expertise and whether or not the expertise was mature sufficient for near-term implementation. Then the examine recognized the related drivers and urgency throughout the nationwide safety and civil house sectors, and the potential nationwide alignment. Key worldwide actors had been additionally evaluated for his or her priorities. A U.S. perspective of the challenges and enablers to adoption of the expertise was explored. Lastly, the mixed framework of expertise maturity, drivers, urgency, and challenges was introduced within the context of use instances. The examine discovered that competitors with China is the first driving drive behind the creation of an in-space economic system. Additionally concluded was that alternatives for U.S. nationwide alignment exist however won’t happen with out direct intervention. Suggestions for coverage and resolution makers had been supplied for steps in the direction of the creation of an in-space economic system.
Desk of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
What’s ISAM?
Chapter Three
The Expertise Maturity of ISAM
Chapter 4
The U.S. Implementation of ISAM
Chapter 5
The Worldwide Implementation of ISAM
Chapter Six
Challenges to ISAM Adoption
Chapter Seven
Conclusion
This doc was submitted as a dissertation in March 2023 in partial success of the necessities of the doctoral diploma in Public Coverage Evaluation on the Pardee RAND Graduate College. The school committee that supervised and authorized the dissertation consisted of Krista Langeland (Chair), Dave Baiocchi, and Laura Delgado Lopez.
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