A Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Federal Civil Space Budget

Dive deep in this comprehensive reference of the U.S. federal civil space budget between FY23 and proposed spending in FY25, which provides a foundational dataset for civil space budget analyses. Projects that support, enable, or leverage space activities for civil purposes are found among more than 100 individual line items spread across 17 federal departments and agencies and funded by 4 different appropriations bills. To better view the cross-cutting nature of space missions and the support that enables them, the second half of the report introduces a novel representation of the civil space budget by organizing the data into six national priority areas. This organization of the data highlights the ubiquity of space-related activity throughout diverse sectors to reach the same common goal. 

Note: To facilitate open research, all the budget data discussed in the paper is also available as a separate Excel file here.

Author: Lindsay DeMarchi