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Stefania Paladini
The New Frontiers of Space Economic Implications, Security Issues and Evolving Scenarios
The New Frontiers of Space
Stefania Paladini
The New Frontiers of Space Economic Implications, Security Issues and Evolving Scenarios
Stefania Paladini Birmingham City University Birmingham, UK
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Acknowledgements
This work has been written consulting exclusively materials and data in public domain, available on numerous government websites and organisations. While I have chosen not to include a separate bibliography at the end of the book for reason of space, I have made any effort to cover them in the footnotes, to facilitate autonomous research. As a general rule, I have made frequent use of NASA extensive documentation and consulted all the unclassified sources listed in the EU Commission, JAXA, UKSA and ESA repositories. The sections relative to private groups mentioned in the text (such as SpaceX and Ariane Group, for instance) have made use of freely available company data. The legal section made direct reference to the texts of international treaties and national space laws available on official websites (such as UNOOSA), but they are meant to