Economy
Government Space Budgets
2017 – Chinese Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The Chinese space budget is not publicly available. However, Chinese capabilities and space projects provide indicators for informed estimates of the nation’s space budget…
2017 – Canadian Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The Canadian government allocated the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) C$394.7 million (US$304.0 million) in FY 2017-18 . . .
2017 – Brazilian Government Space Budget – Snapshot
Brazil has experienced widespread economic challenges in recent years, which weakened the Brazilian Real by 51% relative to the US dollar over the past decade. The Brazilian government allocated . . .
2017 – Government Space Budgets – Snapshot
The space investments of governments continue to shift on the basis of national priorities and politics…
2017 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
Nearly half of U.S. government spending, 47.7%, went toward national security space activities within the Department of Defense (DoD) budget. Intelligence programs run by . . .
2017 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $22.4 billion on civil space activities in FY 2016, up 6.7% from $21.0 billion in FY 2015. Civil spending accounts for just over . . .
2017 – United States Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The United States spent $43.3 billion on space activities in fiscal year (FY) 2017, which ran from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017. This was a . . .
2017 – Economy: Space Economy
The global space industry continued to grow in 2016, reaching a total of $329.3 billion. This was slightly higher than the previous record of . . .
2016 – South Korean Government Space Budget
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) had a 2016 budget of 746.4 billion won (US$646.7 million), an increase of 20.6% from its 2015 budget of 618.7 billion . . .
2016 – Russian Government Space Budget
Russia’s space budget has suffered due to the country’s broader economic crisis. Officials of Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency, announced in December 2015 that the…