An Assessment of African Economic Stakeholders Who Could Benefit from an East African Spaceport



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Operating and leveraging an East African Spaceport is a key enabler to the East African Community member states successfully raising their stature on the near future global stage. The accelerating demand for space access by the global community coupled with the current number of equatorially located spaceports clearly indicates a global supply gap. An East African Spaceport would provide the capability to narrow this gap. [1]

The information presented in this phase of the East African Spaceport Feasibility Study reinforces and supports the economic and development benefits mentioned in the initial paper. [1]

The economic and development benefits that the East African Spaceport brings to the East African Community include an influx of sustainable revenue to the region from the commercial and civil/government market segments for launch services from an equatorially located site as well as the opportunity to leverage revenue from tangential industries such as personal spaceflight, suborbital spaceflight, and operationally responsive spaceflight. [1]

Second, the development of an East African Spaceport provides the opportunity for improving the educational and science knowledge gap through technological innovations created from space research and socio-economically relevant joint venture opportunities.

Third, an East African Spaceport provides a platform for infrastructure development in the East African Community. Spaceport development will lead to expansive growth of runway, roadway, railway, waterway, fueling, information technology, and communications systems as well as orders of magnitude increases in construction, manufacturing, and production through-put. [1]

Security, however, is a key consideration that will require focused attention in future studies. Taking government stability and national security into account in addition to resources and point assets, it appears that the two candidate sites located in Kenya, Pate and Manda, are the highest ranked locations for further study to investigate the feasibility of building a spaceport in the East African Community. Subsequent team research will focus on these two sites.


Acknowledgment


The authors would like to acknowledge the data sources listed in the references list and the individuals who provided data or helped in some way contribute to the production of this paper. The authors would also like to give a special acknowledgement to Dr. Robert L. Howard, Jr., the National Society of Black Engineers Space Special Interest Group Director, for his tireless and unwavering efforts in the completion of this paper.

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