{"id":142253,"date":"2018-02-11T21:45:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/?p=142253"},"modified":"2018-02-11T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:45:37","slug":"spacex-bfr-will-make-multi-trillion-dollar-space-industry-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/02\/spacex-bfr-will-make-multi-trillion-dollar-space-industry-by-2030.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX BFR will make multi-trillion dollar space industry by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ULA had a vision for $2.7 trillion space industry by 2045 which would be an expansion by eight times from the $330 billion industry today. The accelerated pace of SpaceX launch vehicles will accelerate space mining, high-speed internet satellites and space-based solar power and the development of a  massive space industry.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX already has the Falcon Heavy flying years head of ULA Vulcan rocket or its Space Launch System.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX and its fully reusable BFR will accelerate the development of near-earth asteroid mining and space-based solar power.<\/p><div class=\"nextb-last-paragraph\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"nextb-725054927\">\r\n<div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/339474670\/Nextbigfuture_A\/InContent_3'><\/div>\r\n<div data-onpage='true' data-adpath='\/339474670,3911572\/Nextbigfuture_B\/InContent_3'><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B4UkjBSu5g3KaTV5cnotRXJHOFk\/view\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bank of America wrote a 101 page report on the future of the Space Industry.<\/A><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9a963b3be61d962ddc4c2b71f9334bad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2151\" height=\"852\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9a963b3be61d962ddc4c2b71f9334bad.png 2151w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9a963b3be61d962ddc4c2b71f9334bad-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9a963b3be61d962ddc4c2b71f9334bad-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/02\/9a963b3be61d962ddc4c2b71f9334bad-1024x406.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2151px) 100vw, 2151px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the asteroids in the asteroid belt have been estimated to be worth 700 million trillion dollars, it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1312.4450.pdf\" =blank target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tens of thousands of larger than 100-meter diameter near earth asteroids that will be exploited first.<\/A> There should be over 18 water-bearing near earth asteroids over 100 meters in diameters. There should be over ~9000 near earth asteroids in the 18-100 meter diameter size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULA had a vision for $2.7 trillion space industry by 2045 which would be an expansion by eight times from the $330 billion industry today. The accelerated pace of SpaceX launch vehicles will accelerate space mining, high-speed internet satellites and space-based solar power and the development of a massive space industry. SpaceX already has the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"SpaceX BFR will make multi-trillion dollar space industry by 2030\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/02\/spacex-bfr-will-make-multi-trillion-dollar-space-industry-by-2030.html#more-142253\" aria-label=\"More on SpaceX BFR will make multi-trillion dollar space industry by 2030\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1302,1304,1307,1308],"tags":[105,59,20,1363,60,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}