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Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecomm…
Competitive satellite placement and the economic geography of the geostationary orbit
Akhil Rao, Nikodem Szumilo
The geostationary orbit (GEO) carries most of the world's satellite communications revenue. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) coordinates and records frequency assign…
Prices and Competition in Vertically Integrated Launch Markets
Akhil Rao
Over the last 15 years the number of U.S. orbital launches has grown by roughly an order of magnitude. About three-quarters of those launches were on SpaceX's Falcon 9 vehicle, and…
Fires and Local Labor Markets
Raphaelle G. Coulombe, Akhil Rao
We study the dynamic effects of fires on county labor markets in the US using a novel geophysical measure of fire exposure based on satellite imagery. We find increased fire exposu…
An integrated debris environment assessment model
Akhil Rao, Francesca Letizia
Launch behaviors are a key determinant of the orbital environment. Physical and economic forces such as fragmentations and changing launch costs, or policies like post-mission disp…
International cooperation and competition in orbit-use management
Aditya Jain, Akhil Rao
Orbit-use management efforts can be structured as binding national regulatory policies or as self-enforcing international treaties. New treaties to control space debris growth appe…
The Economics of Orbit Use: Open Access, External Costs, and Runaway Debris Growth
Akhil Rao, Giacomo Rondina
We present a dynamic physico-economic model of Earth orbit use with endogenous satellite collision risk to study conditions under which debris-producing collisions between orbiting…