this is boom bus one business show you can't afford to miss branch of boring washington coming up. we have a special show today on the recent advancement in space, exploration in an industry that was almost exclusive to governments. the private sector has picked up in recent years will go over who the big players are and what they hope to accomplish. and later the list of nations with their eyes set on the stars continues to grow. we'll talk about what the future holds with impacts. so today, so let's dive right in and like nearly every industry, the space sector was hit hard by the cobra, 1900 pandemic with missions, years in the making having to be delayed. but with that being said, the 2nd half of 2020 and the start of 2021, have been a pretty compelling time for the space industry. both from private companies and governments are t correspondence. temperature. join us now to discuss these recent exciting accomplishments. sire sir brand was going to space in 2020 did not go as planned. a

few emissions did had some significant new milestone. first in july 2020, the united arab emirates launched hope, which became the arab world. first mission to another planet. now that mission will build a complete picture of mars's climate, and helping scientists better understand what mars was like when it's admirable fear could have supported life. now also in 2020 of july their peers, severe ends. rover was launched by naz on their mission to seek signs of ancient lived and collect samples of rock for possible return to earth. and july was apparently a big month for space. the chinese tea on when one mission entered orbit around the red planet, making this try another 2nd space mission. but the 1st that attempted without any international partners. now, all of those, the 3 missions reached marcia an orbit in february of 2021. now the fast forward

a few months to november of 2020 a crew dragon capsule carried 4 astronauts into space from the kennedy center in florida, now setting off on a 27 hour pursuit of the international space station on spaces x 1st operational crew, rotation flight to the or a bidding outpost. now, this mission, also march space x is 100 successful flight to orbit. but not all of space x is launches have been successful now. the next part of the prototype of 2020, named as an 8, took to the air for several minutes in december before flipping around and eventually exploding upon landing. now, while their prototype didn't stick to the landing, it did last through several areas. maneuvers now, we've also had some pretty big milestones into 2021. now, earlier this year,

brazilian earth observation satellite soar to sprayed aboard a indian rocket along with 18 passenger satellites from the u. s. and india. now this marks brazil's 1st independently designed build and operate a satellite. then we had another failure for space x the star ship s and 10. a spacecraft touched down successfully after a haul high all to to test flight, a major milestone for the company and its crude mars ambitions. but the vehicle didn't manage the whole itself together. exploding about 8 minutes after landing. lastly, china's new along march 7, a rocket launched its 1st orbital mission after its 1st attempt one year ago and dead with a failure. brent r t correspondent, science avager. thank you so much. and what we use the space race,

most of us think back to the united states and the soviet union rushing for dominance in outer space. what we should now think of is the race between private companies attempting to be the 1st to offer space exploration and public boom. but co host, ben swan explains for britain, there are essentially 3 major private space companies that are competing in this arena. we're talking about, of course, eli mosques, space x, jeff bezos is blue origin and sir richard branson's, virgin galactic. the real question though, is just how far can these private space companies push each other as they compete? well, let's start with what each of these companies is focused on right now. blue origin plans to deliver moon gravity style missions on space slides much closer to earth. starting in 2020 to the company plans to meet a long standing need to simulate lunar gravity. that would be $16.00 of the earth's for larger payloads and for longer periods of time than the current options. now a big setback for the company, however,

is it's new glenn rocket program. the launch date for its massive reusable rocket had been 2020. the company now admits that new gal and won't be launching until at least a 4th quarter of 2022. or let's move to virgin galactic. as of december of last year, the company landed a major contract with nasa. virgin galactic has been selected to provide regular access to flights for nasa. payloads. as the space agency conducts more research and development and plans for future exploratory missions, but virgin lactic has also has some big setbacks to with spaceship to sub orbital vehicle. the company says it is delaine the next test by the bad vehicle, by more than 2 months to address technical issues. in addition, part of a revamped flight test program will postpone flights of space tourists until at least 2022. and then there is space x arguably the best known and so far, most successful, private space company. in fact, just last weekend, the space ex falcon 9 rocket launched

a new batch of 60 star link internet satellites into orbit early sunday, and then nailed into landing se to top off a record setting mission. by the way, sterling is a satellite based internet constellation intended to blanket our planet in high speed broadband. the goal of the project is to bring internet connectivity to the billions of people who still lack reliable internet access. the idea require swarms of satellites operating in low earth orbit to provide continuous coverage. but let's go back to space x because nasa is also working with space x to launch a 2nd commercial cru rotation mission to the international space station. it didn't streamline bit deal as nasa's space x crew to mission will carry astronauts or massa and the essay, the european space agency aboard a cru dragon spacecraft launch in the top of falcon 9 rocket on its way to the space station. the mission is scheduled to lift off no earlier than april 20th of 2021 at nasa. kennedy space center in florida. so all this raises the question,

why is it nasa doing this themselves? will actually nasa is working with these companies, but also reaping the reward of allowing private companies to bring down the costs of space exploration by competing for nasa contracts that allows nasa to invest in other areas of space and utilize innovations that taxpayers are having to pay for this kind of investment is also good for companies that look to improve satellite service. in fact, as space companies embrace greater efficiency and more commercial applications, the global space industry will continue to grow and just a couple of numbers to keep in mind. here morgan stanley has said that the global space industry could actually produce revenues of one trillion. that's one trillion dollars by just the year 2040 right now. current to estimates for global revenues, roughly $350000000000.00 for whom bust. i'm been one. so let's dig deeper into the private space industry with boom bus, co host christy i and aaron pagan,

he's an adjunct professor of strategy and economics at depaul university with a focus in space commercialization. thank you both for being here now aaron, i want to start with you, and this is the most simple question. when we talk about the private space industry, what is the motive nation behind private space companies like space ex, blue origin, and virgin galactic? why are they doing all of this? well, private launch companies like through your mentioning and many others are just trying to lower the cost to space so that we can fully develop the earth fate on me. lower transportation costs means it will be easier to develop oral infrastructure that can eventually make space launch a primarily human transport industry rather than cargo and human. but i want to clarify, when i say eventually, i mean this is going to happen. it's gonna take a long time longer than 20 years, right. but we're constantly moving towards that goal. and the ultimate elevation is to enable other types of economic interactions off planet. and christy, when we talk about the big bucks involved here,

we just heard been say that this is going to be a trillion dollar industry by 2040, according to morgan stanley. now, how exactly are these companies going to make this profitable? because i feel like so many onlookers see this as really a vanity project for some of the world wealthiest people are 2 things working for you to conning costs on the supply side and increasing demand on the user side. so today has development of these we use will rockets that are providing a turning point in the industry. so these are useful rockets are kind of like an elevator to low earth orbit and they're the key to access of lowering costs. so space actually basically shows the global marketplace with a low cost and unprecedented launch rate of its falcon, $9.00 rockets, where historically rockets, that long satellites and other much a password hon and the boosters were discard into the oceans after each launch. so the lower cost of space rocket had now created new opportunities for what you can launch. and there was a new competitors like blue origin who are creating this whole. ringback ecosystem of launch vehicle providers that are servicing lower end of the market,

cheaper solution. so the real rock, it will help to drive the cost of launches down, as well as a mass production of satellites. currently, the cost to launch a satellite has declined to about $60000000.00 from $200000000.00 b as the locket, and there's a potential to drop as low as $500000.00 with economy to scale and mass production . so now on the demand side we have the entire space industry likely to impact a number of industries, including aerospace in defense, ip hardware and telecom services. so the most significant opportunity may come from satellite and broadband internet service. and if i do, morgan stanley here, the satellite broadband will represent about 50 percent of the projected growth of the global space economy. and launching the satellite will help to drive down the cost of data just in time when demand for high speed data and access and storage costs explodes. so there's going to be an increased demand for broad bandwidth from thomas cars i o. t devices, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and of course more video streaming. no, aaron, to christy's point, i apologize,

i didn't prep you on this specifically, but when we talk about broadband, satellite internet specifically is space x best poise to make this profit early because they're, you know, getting started on their star link internet constellation. is that going to be a big boon for their, their bottom line to help them push this even further? absolutely, i mean, we're talking about trying to industries that are highly, that are commodities, right? like we're talking about transportation and communication technology, which are there's a lot of demand for that and having a vertical life industry that can one you can get to space really cheap on your own . then you know how to manage it. you manufacture those vehicles. the operation of it as well, and then you're operating these satellites and can manage your own schedule and really be in control of all that. which of a big issue of the launch industry is just making sure that we have enough launch capacity and space ex can control for that? so yeah, it puts them in

a really good leading position by having access to this vertical ecosystem and air . and what's the future of private enterprise with space? exploration and commercialization is the handful of companies that we see in the space. it's currently just the tip of the iceberg. or are these the only people crazy it up to actually go for this? you know, to christy's point there's a lot of pent up demand for launch pass the so there are hundreds of startups looking to get into this game. hundreds of launch starts, i should say. but, you know, what's gonna happen is we're going to see the consolidation to 3 or 4 major firms. you know, right now, as i said, space launches are really vertical ised, vertically integrated industry with manufacturing operating. eventually, we'll likely see this scenario where operation and manufacturing might become separate like airlines or railroads or oceanic shipping, right? but again, this is also going to happen that a lot of very long time from now at the moment there are hundreds of firms engage

in a whole host of product and service development that is not launch and will ultimate rely, rely on cheap, consistence and safe access to space. so with that in mind, there's plenty of room for more startups to try and meet that demand. and now kristi something we talk about on the show all the time. there's actually a lot of talk about how block chain technology can be used in space. in fact, j. p. morgan actually tested block chain payments in space. thing quote, nowhere is more decentralized, detached from the earth than space. tell us about the significance of this test and where the future holds for the technology in the space sector. yeah, this, i'm a very cool experiment. and j. p. morgan test blocking payments between satellite orbiting earth. and basically the test ultimately showed that block chain technology could power payment between every day objects autonomy. so by carrying out this experiment in space validated the approach towards a centralized network where communication with the earth is not even necessary. so,

blocking network created between 2 satellites and token transfer, this was done without any sort of communication with the earth, which is basically the cooling of what we've been saying of doing a peer to peer transaction on earth. what we do with block, hey, was that work without the use of any form of payment form or middleman like paper or ben? so the idea is now to explore io t payments in a marketplace where satellites would send each other data in exchange for payment as more private companies launch their own devices into space. and we often hear the word i o p a lot. we're physical devices are connected to one another, embedded with sensors or software that can share data, things like amazon echo or google home smart frigerator. and examples of these i ot payments would be your smart fridge ordering and paying for milk or self driving car, paying for gas. and what we said earlier, i'd like to acknowledge could be the key to power and block when you have company like blocks stream. the 1st to distribute bitcoin block can be a satellite or space chain which logged to block chain enable satellite payloads into orbit,

which allow for transactions without ever touching the internet. so i think government and financial applications will be the 1st 2 based blocks and other industries with more sensitive data and a lot of remote sites that need to get information from different sources. could also be a candidate basically it allow for companies to upload their data and bypass the existing terrestrial networks that we currently use to talk to data centers. and this will eliminate dependents on this infrastructure which will remove a significant mobility for data breach. boom, boom, co host kristi i and air intake. i can, we can talk about this all day. we'll have you both back to talk more about that in the near future. thank you both for your time. thank you. thank you. and time now for a quick break, but tang here because when we return, there was quite a time when just 2 countries dominated the space race. but now the list of nations with their eyes set on the stars continues to grow.

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the list of countries with space programs continues to grow. as the moon, once again becomes a target of both lunar exploration and political competition, r d correspondent john hardy has more for more than 2 decades, the international space station has really been a symbol of international cooperation with among others. russian cosmonaut working alongside american astronaut in orbital harmony. and while the cosmic cooperation continues aboard the ss on the ground here on earth, well, it's a different story. there is a growing divide between governmental space programs vying for new technology. satellite dominance and soon lunar exploration. russia and china had signed various agreements to begin working together on space projects, including setting up a scientific station on the moon, perhaps signaling the end of us and russian space relations. and the beginning of

a new era of competition with china and russia over returning to the china plans to have more than 40 space launches this year alone, while constructing the country's 1st space station as a main priority. but the u. s. certainly isn't going added alone. the u. s. established what are called the art of miss accords, a series of bilateral agreements with other countries, space agencies, including australia, italy, japan, the u. k, and the united arab emirates. the european union has pledge to pursue a more aggressive european space plan to prevent china from out maneuvering and out muscling the u. s. and its partners while creating a more independent program of its own. across the world, the united arab emirates made history recently by becoming the 1st arab nation to send the spacecraft into the martian orbit for a 2 year mission. saudi arabia plants add another $2000000000.00 to its own space program by 2030 and what has become

a mentally space race of its own. saudi arabia is one of the main founders of air upset the arab satellite communications organization, which it has a 37 percent stake in. israel also continues to bolster its own space program, its own technology and research. and the iranian space agency continues to launch satellites into orbit. the u. s. is raise concerns about runs potential military goals, using rockets to be repurposed as long range missiles and also runs enhanced space reconnaissance capabilities. it's a cosmic stew of competition between countries spanning the globe in the race to space, but the u. s. still leads the charge in the race to mars. and in yet another historic achievement, now passes perseverance rover continues to feed back images and even sound from the red planet. 150000000 miles away. for boom, bust john hardy. for more on this, let's bring an rick term and thin founder of space fund,

the space frontier foundation and earth light foundation. how do you have time to be such a fishing? not on space. we have so many foundations. rick, i start by talk to you about some of the destinations for space programs, as we just heard from john hardy, there russia and china have signed an agreement to work together on a scientific station on the moon, while nasa plans the land, the 1st woman and the next man on the moon by 2024. what's the significance of returning to the lunar surface? well basically, you know, there's, it's like an island. ah, sure it's, you know, it's, it's close enough where we can get back and forth fairly quickly. you know, couple days, 3 days but it also allows us to sort of learn how to operate on a world. so, you know, it's a big the radio show you've got back, you know,

the nasty dirt if you can handle that and learn how to operate. there then you can pretty well go anywhere. did we do a disservice by kind of, i don't want to say abandoning the space program because we certainly didn't do that. but you know, it's been nearly what 50 years since the last time anyone landed on the moon. so was that a disservice to the ambitions when we talk about moving towards mars and something like that, by stopping those missions? i actually do think it was a service i'm, i'm part of the generation that you know, you can either call us apollo children or a orphans of apollo, which is a nice not commentaries my recommend is that i think there was a goal. kennedy had a goal of beating the soviets, taking perhaps what you might call the most expensive selfie ever. which you basically were here. you're not, ha, we have the better system for the problem is there was not a lot of plans if you want to do it as like, you know,

the old question. if the dog catches the car. and so a lot of us don't know what we want to do with it. and we have been working in our various different ways to sort of open that up and make it something that people can go to that you can go to. i can go to that our children can go to. so we're getting back on track now. and it things really use the word taking off. earlier this year we'll talk a bit about 3 missions we've seen tomorrow recently by the us, china and the u. a. and we actually heard quite a bit about, you know, studying ancient life or what might have been. but meanwhile, the basics actually hoping to watch the 1st man commission to the red planet sometime between 2024 and 2025th. you know, why have, we always had that fascination with going to mars it just that it's the next closest body in the, in the solar system. everybody's got their destination. they want to go to in space. you've got the moon people, you got more people when you got what i call,

which one rotating habitat to space itself. i think that on and folks who want to go to mars, i think underlying it. i got to tell you, i think it's because it's got a sky, and it seems the most earth like of the destinations. but here we're, we're going to be able to go anywhere eventually in the solar system. i think we're going to find some other places that people can call home and to me, that's the key. it's all about. settlement exploration is just the 1st step. and on a broader scale, rick, you know, why are we seeing so many nations bolts or their space program? now we're at one point, it was all about just 2 countries. is this being pushed by that private space industry that we talked about so much there in the beginning of the show? yeah, i think this is one of those cases where people are different leaders in the world are starting to realize that this is important. and you know,

it's almost like in the old, old age of exploration that people are starting to understand the implications of the fact that we're sitting in a vast solar system, the res mazing capability to create by going out into it. and they're just starting to, to, to get on board and then, you know, they look over their shoulder and they say potential political enemy or somebody. and they begin to go wrecked tomlinson. unfortunately, we are out of time, we could spend hours talking about this as we said earlier, founder of space, fun space, frontier foundation and earth light foundational. have again soon. thank you so much. and that's it for this time, you can catch boom bus on demand on portable tv, which is available on smartphones and tablets, your google play and the apple app store by searching portable tv portal tv can also be downloaded on newer model. samsung, smart tv as well as roku devices,

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