Acoustic Shaping: Enabling Technology for a Space-Based Economy

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999lpico.988...11k&link_type=abstract

Space Resources Utilization Roundtable, p. 11

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Telecommunication, Remote Sensing, Technology Utilization, Economics, Launch Costs, Cost Reduction, Low Cost, Space Manufacturing

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This abstract presents three points for discussion: (1) Key to the development of civilization in space, is a space-based marketplace, where the need to compete in earth-based markets is removed, along with the constraint of launch costs from Earth. (2) A body of technical results, obtained by the authors' team, indicates promise for non-contact manufacturing in space, of low-cost items required for human presence in space. This is presented along with various other techniques which hold promise. (3) The economics of starting a space-based production company are heavily dependent on the presence of a rudimentary infrastructure. A national-level investment in space-based infrastructure, would be an essential catalyst for the development of a space-based economy. Some suggestions for the beginnings of this infrastructure are repeated from the literature.

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