NEW AQ: Latin America Looks to the Stars
The region has a huge opportunity in the booming global space industry. What is necessary to take full advantage?
This article is adapted from AQ's special report When Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public in June in a record-setting $75 billion share offering, it confirmed what investors had been betting on for years: The space industry is on the verge of a major boom. The global space economy could reach $1.8 trillion by 2035, nearly triple its value in 2023. And Musk, among others, has signaled that much of the upcoming expansion will occur outside of the U.S. Increasingly, the search is leading south. As Juan Pablo Toro reports in this issue’s cover story, several Latin American countries are...
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