Thursday, January 7, 2010

The New Year 2010

Looking forward on a transnational space industry, signs are encouraging.  Commercial space activity is on a growth path and government constraints to market forces are under review.
The space standards community is struggling with the effects of commercialization, but at least the community knows the future will be more commercial than the past.
New activity this year will see manned spaceflight as an emerging area for international standards development.  Regional and national level standards are also growing, but there is awareness that the market is transnational. New strategies will include some aspect of technical architecture.  In parallel, technical architecture is being defined in a more stable fashion.
In 2010, expect the barriers to trade to continue to fall. Expect the realization of opportunities for space infrastructure development to continue to mature, driving the need for better architecture and well defined standards.

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