Corporate cosmos: How commercial American space imagines our future and shapes our present
Journal: Econstor (Econstor)
Year: 2024

Over the past ten years, and without a lot of public or political attention, space has become a site of commercial investment and development. Already much in our daily lives depends on growing satellite systems, crowding Earth's orbit, for communication, navigation, weather information, and the surveillance and prediction of climate change patterns. And in just a few years ambitious plans for industrial development in outer space will, too, be on the threshold of fruition: helium and mineral mi