Commerce in Space—Infrastructures, Technologies and Applications

Olla (Madonna U.) brings together 17 contributions from an international group of scientists, educators, lawyers, and policy analysts that reflect on the use of space technology for managing resources, satellite Internet and navigational technologies, space policy and economics, and space and society. Specific topics addressed include the use of space technology for natural resource management and disaster monitoring and mitigation, convergence of satellite communication and data networks, development of nanosatellites, construction of European space policy, application of satellite earth observation for improving the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements, socioeconomic and political issues relevant to extraterrestrial regimes and space macro-projects, commercialization of space technology, the ethics of commercial space technology, space tourism, and the future of the space elevator concept. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)