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Space Products and Services – TSR 2012
2012 – Industry Outlook
Infrastructure: Space Infrastructure – TSR 2012
Economy: Space Economy – TSR 2012
Science, Biotechnology, and Heath Care
Space provides a unique environment for testing complicated physical and biochemical processes in the absence of gravity. This causes many processes and reactions to behave differently than they do on Earth and allows for unique scientific inquiries.
Homeland Security, Defense, and Intelligence
Since the beginning of the Space Race, defense considerations have been an important part of space activities. National security space assets provide tactical and strategic intelligence services, navigation data and precision guidance for munitions, secure communications, and monitoring of foreign weapons testing and missile launches.
Transportation, Logistics, and Manufacturing
Beyond corporate and retail services, space products and services also facilitate global transportation, logistics, industrial manufacturing, and materials testing. While a single GPS device enables personal navigation, multiple network-linked GPS devices enable the management of complex logistics networks, such as time- and location-sensitive tracking of shipments.
Retail, Finance, and Corporate Services
In the information age, space products and services have become increasingly important to the retail, finance, and corporate service sectors. A healthy industry requires reliable access to information in order to reach customers and develop products. Satellite services are versatile, benefiting sophisticated, highly modernized economies as well as poorer, developing regions.
Imagery Helps Keep Track of Diseased Rodents
Another experiment used satellites to track disease-carrying mice on the Earth and showed that this method could provide early warning of outbreaks of the dangerous Hantavirus, a disease that kills about ##% of those infected.
Antibodies Helping Bones
The world’s largest biotechnology company, Amgen, launched 30 mice on NASA’s final shuttle mission in July 2011 to test an antibody that could help prevent bone loss. The lack of gravity during space flight causes loss of bone mass in humans, and scientists are hoping that these experiments will determine whether the antibody can reduce this effect.