New spacecraft, rockets, and other technologies are helping private commercial companies achieve liftoff—with plenty of eager investors footing the bill.
Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2023-553
The Space Economy (2021 text: private commercial space companies lifting off on investor money, aggressive investment, space economy above $1 trillion) continues one step narrower as Space Opens Up to Smaller Private Companies under the 2023 Space Economy sub-section (cheaper launches; its 2024 successor: record private investment in the new space economy). Space Barons (2022) is the billionaires' affluent space-tourism race, a different claim (pass 3 ruled it not Private Missions). Low certainty: 2023 tag is 1st year.
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).