Cislunar Economy, Since the founding of the United States, two classically liberal ideas have been crucial to our ascent as a worldwide power: Free business and cultural tolerance. 온라인카지노
According to Russell Shorto’s classic “The Island at the Center of the World,” these American values were initially set in motion by the Dutch in New Amsterdam
Acentury before the “original” 13 colonies were formed.
These early Dutch settlers reflected their country’s values, laws, and priorities as they established a multicultural society in present-day Manhattan
That eschewed military conquest and placed a high value on free markets, cultural tolerance, and individual rights
All of which are strikingly similar to the United States we know today. Those beliefs positioned America to someday lead the free world.
So, what do Dutch explorers from the 16th century have to do with the cislunar economy?
Leading through trade and commerce rather than brute force is the best way to win the long game, and these early settlers were well aware of this.
Centuries later, at the beginning of a new era of space exploration and commerce, America must reflect on and rediscover its buried colonial past
And re-prioritize these principles in order to successfully lead the biggest exploration project since.
The Pentagon appears to be ready to agree, including Frank Kendall
West Point graduate, soldier, former Under Secretary of Defense, and current Secretary of the Air Force, which includes the teetering Space Force.
Secretary Kendall has stated publicly that cislunar defense is not a high priority for strategic defense, with the top priority being to help the terrestrial struggle.
Handwringing over cislunar space security, he contends, is a more distant requirement than the proximate concerns of hegemonic authoritarians, particularly China.
Of course, Secretary Kendall is correct, and the key is to learn from our Dutch past of prioritizing commercial trade over military.
Because of the inventiveness and drive of America’s commercial space enterprises, advancing a commercial cislunar economy, even by the Space Force,
Is crucial to Vice President Harris’ overall government strategic objectives.
We in the sector can’t help but agree that it’s time to stop investing vital defense dollars in weaponizing cislunar space with special government technologies that already exist commercially.
Instead, the Pentagon must advocate for a whole-of-government approach that will build the groundwork for another 500 years of prosperous commerce.
Encouraging the bravery of these early commercial businesses, as the Dutch government did with its banks, trade companies
And entrepreneurs on that frontier, will set cislunar exploration on this path.
To be sure, changing the industrial culture we developed to defeat the Soviets will be difficult
But commercial firms are already developing and deploying solutions for many of the capabilities the government requires today. 카지노사이트
The Space Force can acquire off-the-shelf cislunar systems and services for less than 1% of the cost of developing its own.
By not investing increasingly precious R&D monies in unnecessarily militarizing this new realm with government-designed equipment
The United States will avoid avoidable diplomatic conflicts with some of our space-faring competitors.
Subscriptions to ultra-low-cost commercial communication and surveillance systems can ensure that anyone in space can connect in real-time with colleagues and relatives
As well as autonomous systems back on Earth. For pennies on the dollar, free nations (not simply our military) may get understanding of what the Chinese are actually doing
Rather than what their propaganda machinery or our industrial complex may be advertising.
There are a few firms that are already leading the way in the cislunar economy, such as Intuitive Machines
A Houston-based company that is well on its way to putting commercial landers on the Moon next year and being the first to reach the Lunar South Pole.
It will also deliver the first lunar commercial data-relay satellite to connect back to Earth as an end-to-end capability deployment.
Following Intuitive Machine’s recent announcement of a SPAC contract to actualize its goal
I was fortunate to speak with Steve Altemus, co-founder and CEO, to get his perspective on the cislunar company.
While we may be the first, we have competition who force us to deliver our best every day.
There are no budget gimmicks in their company model; only innovation and delivering results to clients.
Leveraging this idea will allow the Space Force to avoid delayed, expensive, specialized solutions
Steve says, something that many commercial space enterprises have been complaining about.
The redesigned National Space Council has placed a healthy emphasis on a whole-of-government approach, which has long been necessary.
Above all, unwittingly slipping into an unduly military picture of space is myopic at best and self-defeating at worst.
The new government policy of buying what we can and building only what we need?
Is also very important for the United States to remain competitive in cislunar space, according to Steve.
Who knows, perhaps the first cislunar companies, such as Intuitive Machines
Will be talked about in the same way that the early settlers and trading companies of New Amsterdam were.
One day, as Bezos, Musk, and others have predicted, there will be a flourishing, off-the-planet economy, and these initial few enterprises will define its embryonic DNA. If the United States
If America can lead with a pro-business stance similar to the Dutch vision for New Amsterdam, perhaps there will be a New Washington on the moon or Mars in a few hundred years. 카지노 블로그