#Yuri, a German space 🌌 #biotech company, has reserved an unspecified amount of payload space on #Starlab for the station’s first full year of commercial operations.

Starlab Space selected SpaceX’s #Starship to launch the station. It said it has a launch contract priced at $90 million to send Starlab to orbit https://spacenews.com/starlab-space-fully-books-commercial-payload-space-on-planned-space-station/

#SpaceStation #SpaceEconomy

🇨🇳 Chinese products are often cheaper and come with more perks than Western ones.

“#China cares about the commercial aspect, but that’s not the main driver. They know how important the Global South is for a long-term #geopolitical play. These are developing economies, and in the future, may be important markets.” https://payloadspace.com/whos-working-with-china-on-space/

#SpaceEconomy #SpaceIndustry #Africa #Pakistan #Egypt #Venezuela

📙 Literature review

#SpaceEconomy, Di Pippo
The Space Economy, Anderson
To Infinity, Roettgen
The Cosmos Economy, Gregg
#SpaceMining and Manufacturing, Sivolella
Red Moon Rising, Autry, Navarro
Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle, Hersch
Reentry, Eric Berger
Elon Musk, Isaacson
Breaking All the Rules, Cantrell
The New World on #Mars, Robert Zubrin
Spacefarers, Wanjek
The Long #SpaceAge, MacDonald
#SpaceCapitalism, Nelson
The Dimming of Starlight, Munévar

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IEA_Space-Economy_Zitelmann_Digital_V3-.pdf