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The Space Economy at a Glance (2007)
Space applications are becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life. Weather forecasting, air traffic control, global communications and broadcasting, disaster management -- these and many other key activities would be almost unthinkable today without satellite technology.
Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges (2005)
This book explores the contribution space systems might make in dealing with looming societal challenges related to threats to the physical environment and the management of natural resources, growing mobility and its consequences, increasing security concerns, and the shift to the information society.
Space 2030: Exploring the Future of Space Application (2004)
Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, media attention has focused almost exclusively on spectacular space missions. However, space actors have also faced their fair share of setbacks: the Columbia tragedy, extravagant cost overruns and painful reductions in public support to space ventures.
Over the years, advances in space technologies have led to the development of increasingly sophisticated military and civil space assets.
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