| Book Name: | In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy |
| Category: | Aerospace Engineering |
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In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy
Book Description:
In Defense of Japan provides the first complete, up-to-date, English-language account of Japan’s strategic space development history, politics, and policy. Space technologies’ dual-use nature, meaning they cut across both market and military applications, has had two significant consequences for Japan. First, Japan has developed space technologies for the market in its civilian space program that have yet to be commercially competitive. Second, faced with rising geopolitical uncertainties and in the interest of their economics, the makers of such technologies have been critical players in the shift from the market to the military in Japan’s space capabilities and policy. This book shows how the total of market-to-military moves across space launch vehicles, satellites, and spacecraft, and emerging related technologies already mark Japan as an advanced military space power.
Table of contents :
Contents
……Page 8
List of Tables and Figures……Page 10
Preface……Page 12
List of Abbreviations……Page 16
1. The Market-to-Military Trend……Page 32
2. Evolution of Japan’s Space Policy……Page 55
3. The Players……Page 85
4. Launch Vehicles……Page 126
5. Satellites and Spacecraft……Page 161
6. Emerging Technologies……Page 204
7. In Defense of Japan……Page 254
Appendix I……Page 284
Appendix II……Page 300
Notes……Page 310
Index……Page 394
In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy
Author(s): Saadia Pekkanen, Paul Kallender-Umezu
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9780804700634
