US government policy - the major factor shaping the international commercial space launch marketplace

Article Abstract:

Douglas Heydon, President of Arianespace, Inc., feels that US government policies and executive decisions have great control over the development of the international market for commercial space launch services. Foreign policy and national security interests often get prominence over commercial interests. Regular interventions by the government in launch decisions also hamper the development of a free space launch industry. Arianespace's ability to succeed in competing in such an environment, and the need for collaborating with Western European industries is highlighted.

Officials and employees, Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Arianespace Inc., Heydon, Douglas

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Free trade and the commercial launch industry

Article Abstract:

The artificial satellite launch services industry is unlikely to be characterized by a free and open international market. National protectionist tendencies are driven by the need to safeguard a nation's technological competitiveness and the livelihood of its voting population. Launch services are, after all, just another sector of the global transportation industry. Past experience with the shipping and aviation industries indicate that fair international competition is an evasive goal even after deregulation.

Space business enterprises, Free trade

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Prospects for international space cooperation in the Pacific Basin

Article Abstract:

The nations of the Pacific Basin may soon find it in their mutual interests to cooperate in commercial space enterprises and even to establish a Pacific space agency to oversee such ventures. Such a cooperative institutional vehicle might be patterned along the lines of Europe's successful European Space Agency while keeping in mind the cultural and political differences between the two world regions.

Management, Science and technology policy, Pacific Ocean, Astronautics and state, Space policy, International cooperation, European Space Agency, Pacific Area

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