Marit Undseth (Policy Analyst) led the development of this publication with support from Claudia Abdallah (Junior Economist), James Jolliffe (Economist) and Barrie Stevens (Senior Advisor), under the leadership of Claire Jolly (Head of Unit) in the OECD Space Forum.
The authors of individual chapters were Marit Undseth (Chapters 1 and 2). Chapters 3-8 were authored by participants in the OECD project on the economics of space sustainability: Chapter 3 was authored by Chanhee Lee, Jong Ho Hong, Keewon Kim, Habin Kim, Heeyoung Seo (Seoul National University in Korea) and Jinyoung Kang (National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Korea) and the work was supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea under [NRF-2023M1A3B6A02061456]. Chapter 4 was authored by Yui Nakama, Quentin Verspieren (University of Tokyo, Japan) and Aya Iwamoto (Astroscale, Japan). Chapter 5 was authored by Gelsomina Catalano (Csil, Italy) and Valentina Morretta (University of Milan, Italy). Chapter 6 was authored by Alessandro Paravano, Giorgio Locatelli and Paolo Trucco (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy). Chapter 7 was authored by Erika Scuderi (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria). Chapter 8 was authored by Xiao-Shan Yap and Emmanuelle David (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland). Furthermore, Box 2.2. is based on a paper written by Nonthaphat Pulsiri and Victor Dos Santos Paulino (Toulouse Business School). Box 2.3. is based on a paper authored by a team of students and researchers in the United Kingdom: Marek Ziebart, Santosh Bhattarai, Charles Constant, Indigo Brownhall, Wei Lai, Zhaoqun Zhang, Logan Scott, Barnaby Jupp, Xueru Hao (University College London, United Kingdom), Johnathan Wolff (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Joanne Wheeler (Alden Legal, United Kingdom).
The Secretariat warmly thanks the authors as well as all the other participants, for their inputs and their engagement throughout the project, without which this publication would not be possible.
The Secretariat further wishes to acknowledge with sincere thanks the support provided by the organisations forming the Steering Group of the OECD Space Forum: the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canada; the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), France; the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany; the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy; the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Korea; the Netherlands Space Office (NSO), Netherlands; the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway; the Swiss Space Office, Switzerland; the UK Space Agency (UKSA), United Kingdom; the Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States; and the European Space Agency (ESA).
Finally, we thank our OECD colleagues in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation for their contributions to this report, notably Sylvain Fraccola for publication support and Alessandra Colecchia, Head of the Science and Technology Policy Division, Hanna-Mari Kilpelainen, Senior Counsellor, and Jens Lundsgaard, Deputy Director, for their comments and careful review.