Economy
Government Space Budgets
2016 – European Cooperative Organization and Government Space Budgets
Apart from the EDA, several national governments in Europe make significant military space spending commitments on a national basis.
2016 – Chinese Government Space Budget
The budget for China’s space activities is not made publicly available. However, given China’s capabilities and numerous space projects, it is reasonable to assume that the nation . . .
2016 – Canadian Government Space Budget
In FY 2016-17, which extended from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 in Canada, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) budget was C$406.4 million (US$312.8 million). This was a . . .
2016 – Brazilian Government Space Budget
Brazil has experienced widespread economic challenges in recent years, which affected spending on space activities. Brazil’s space agency, Agencia Espacial Brasileira (AEB), was allocated . . .
2016 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets
The United States spent $22.4 billion on civil space activities in FY 2016, up 6.7% from $21.0 billion in FY 2015. Civil spending accounts for just over half of total U.S. space spending. The largest contributor . . .
2016 – Government Space Budgets – Snapshot
Total global government space budgets in 2016 were $## billion, a ##% decrease from $## billion in 2015.
2016 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $## billion on space activities in FY 2016, which ran from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. ## of this spending, ## %, went…
Annual U.S. Space Budget Overviews
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2015 – EUMETSAT Space Budget
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) had a total budget of €337.6 million (US$462.1 million) for 2014. The largest amount of funding was directed to the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) program with €136.4 million (US$186.7 million), followed by the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) program worth €78.0 million (US$106.8 million)
2015 – RDT&E and IR&D funding
Independent Research and Development (IR&D) refers to a contractor’s own investment in research and development studies into promising technologies of potential interest to government or commercial customers. Companies can recover a portion of these costs as overhead on current government contracts. In 2015, IR&D spending was estimated to be $165 million.