“All the estimates of the size of the space economy and the growth forecasts that we're seeing vary pretty wildly, because there's no one definition of the space economy. The BEA's definition is very expansive: everything that takes place in space, everything that supports it, and all the things that depend on space to function. But to understand the production of satellites, you need a much narrower definition.”

So, yeah, that's a good question. How expansive do we want this definition of the space economy to be? There was a good analysis of this done by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the BEA, a few years ago, where they went through this exercise to measure the space economy and their definition. The space economy was really expansive. I'm not sure if it would have included Uber and Amazon, but they tried to include everything that takes place in space, everything that supports the things that take place in space, and all the things that depend on space to function. And so, you might think of things like Uber and Amazon as using either communications from space or using GPS. As part of that, I don't know if that fell in the BEA's definition. But, yeah, that's a very expansive definition of the space economy, and it made a lot of sense for the BEA to be looking at it that way. So, the BEA's definition is very expansive because their goal was really to just measure the whole value of economic activity that takes place in or depends on space. But for other activities like trying to understand the space industry and the production of satellites and things like that, you need a much narrower definition.…