Space Agenda 2025
Introduction
Today, space technology brings us closer together and gives us more understanding of our world than ever before. The myriad of services enabled by space technology offer new opportunities to strengthen national security and to improve the human condition. Moreover, an infusion of commercial space capabilities into the civil and national security space sectors has caused a rethinking of government space systems architectures. But these trends are not yet fully consolidated, the sustainability of this progress is questionable, and U.S. space leadership remains under challenge. It is a critical time for policymakers to shape the future.
Space Agenda 2025 is a series of papers to inform incoming U.S. policymakers and space sector leaders about critical issues in three key areas: strengthening leadership and competitiveness, catalyzing commercial space and charting future value.