Space Economy
How these connect
Upstream and downstream in space accounting and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.
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- Upstream and downstream in space accounting · assesses · Global navigation satellite systems
GNSS is the clearest case in which the entire measured revenue of a space system sits downstream of an asset that charges nothing.
- The United States opens the Landsat archive at no charge · evidence_for · Upstream and downstream in space accounting
Opening the archive drove measured imagery revenue to zero while creating large downstream activity, showing that the accounting boundary determines the reported result.
- The trillion-dollar space economy projection · derived_from · Upstream and downstream in space accounting
A trillion-dollar total is reachable or unreachable depending on which downstream categories the forecaster counts as space economy.
- Selective Availability is switched off · concerns · Upstream and downstream in space accounting
Discontinuing signal degradation created an entire downstream industry without changing any upstream asset, separating the two categories in a single decision.