Economy
Government Space Budgets
2015 – French Government Space Budget – Snapshot
In 2015, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France’s space agency, had a budget of €2.126 billion (US$2.371 billion). This was a 1.3% decrease from its 2014 budget of €2.153 billion…
2015 – European Space Agency Budget – Snapshot
ESA operated with a 2015 budget of €4.433 billion (US$4.94 billion), an 8% increase from the 2014 budget of €4.102 billion (US$5.62 billion). The growth was primarily due to…
2015 – European Commission Space Budget – Snapshot
A growing share of the European public investment in civil space programs is funded by the European Union under the auspices of its executive body, the European…
2015 – Chinese Government Space Budget – Snapshot
China is one of three nations, along with the United States and Russia, capable of launching humans to space, though it has not done so since 2013. China is developing…
2015 – Canadian Government Space Budget – Snapshot
In FY 2015, which extends from April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) budget was C$483.4 (US$387.5 million). This is an increase of 27.6% over FY 2014 funding.
2015 – Brazilian Government Space Budget – Snapshot
Brazil has been experiencing widespread economic challenges in recent years, with almost no growth in GDP in 2014, and an estimated 3% decline in 2015. These broader issues have affected spending on space activities.
2015 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
The majority of U.S. space spending in FY 2015, 52.9%, was directed toward national security space programs, including those conducted by the military services, the…
2015 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $20.1 billion on civil space activities in FY 2015, up 2.5% from FY 2014. Civil spending accounts for just under half of total U.S. space spending. The largest contributor…
2015 – United States Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The United States spent $44.57 billion on space activities in 2015. The majority of this spending, 52.9%, went toward national security space activities within the Department of Defense (DoD) budget.
2015 – Government Space Budgets – Snapshot
Total global government space budgets in 2015 were $76.516 billion, a 4.8% decrease from $80.415 billion in 2014. More than half of this spending was in the United States, which budgeted $44.567 billion for government space activities in 2015. Government budget levels reflect the most recent budgetary information available for each country, taking into account the fact…