Animesh PradhanAIR 2 · CSE 2023 · 187 wordsTheir whole copy
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Space Tourism is expected to rise to a US $50 Billion industry by 2030 with larger private sector participation like SpaceX.
Body · points
- Challenges with space tourism
- Risk for human life - vulnerability in space increases
- Debris issues - more than 35,000 debris >10cm in space
- Commercialisation of space will reduce the welfare application & investment of space
- Carbon foot print shall increase with space tourism
- Intensify social inequalities
- lack of robust technology & experiments to judge the longevity of space tourism missions
Measures to address the challenges → International protocols like outer space Treaty, Moon Treaty, convention on peaceful usage of space etc. → Debris Removal Mechanisms like NASA's Debris Avoidance Manaevour (DAM) & ISRO's NETRA → larger private sector investment & facilitate usage of public infrastructure → Renewable mode of missions. Ex JUICE Mission of EU uses 100km² of solar panel → Utilise the proceeds of space tourism for R&D and welfare activities
Close · a way forward
With global space industry achieving new wonders through Chandrayaan, Artemis, JUICE etc., space tourism is the new norm, but must be ecologically sustainable.