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The 2000s Space boom, also known as the Great Leap, refers to the rapid expansion and commercialisation of the global space industry quickly following the Millennium Peace. [...]
Background
- Space race never ends because the Cold War gets hotter
- Militarization of space during The Deluge
- massive expansion of imilitary spaceports in Northern Elia Austral, the !Caribbean, Eastern Hylasia and South Abaria using maglev and laser-based assisted launch systems in part because a couple of countries were trying to set up an SDI-style defence system to dampen the effectiveness of strategic nukes as a deterrent, alongside the testing of HEMPs and land-to-orbit weapon systems
- The big civilisation-ending war that the 6 day war was thought to have sparked never came to pass, so a lot of the new launch infrastructure is either privatised, leased or opened up to civilian uses which becomes the basis of the new space economy
- New companies and large private investment to capitalise on new launch infrastucture, governments still play a large role through either regulation, military affairs or even more directly through public companies
Boom
- Boom history here
Economic impact
- new jobs
Markets
Defense industry
- Great powers still miliarize space but its mostly anti-ICBM platforms and armed space stations
- Orion Battleships????? idk (prolly not)
- Arms companies are in on the fun
Energy
- Lunar solar energy production is really big
Materials processing
- Synthetic crystal production stuff
Telecommunications
- fixed and mobile satellite services
- Starlink becomes a thing
Mining
- Oxygen extracted from Regolith to make rocket fuel
- REMs and KREEPs extraction
Tourism
- Billionaire and multimillionaire thing
Electronics
- Robotics, modular construction