Evaluating Space as the Next Critical Infrastructure Sector Table 2 : Critical Infrastructure Evaluation
creation in the 1980s . They further assessed any loss of GPS services could result in a billion dollars per day loss to the U . S . economy . These results were commissioned by NIST in an interest to discover how GPS affected the ten U . S . economic sectors which used GPS on a day to day basis ( Coraggio , 2019 ).
In addition to GPS ’ economic benefits , the space industry continues to expand other economic sectors which contributed to the positive score . One of the biggest global space economic sectors deals with improved communications . As an example , global satellite television was evaluated at $ 92B in 2019 ( Watson , 2019 ). The overall global pay T . V market in 2020 was evaluated at $ 225B . Satellite TV in the U . S was tracked in 2017 as $ 33.4B ( Dziadul , 2020 ). This shows satellite television ’ s importance as a U . S . market and global economic contributions . Satellite television offer significant entertainment as well as a means to communicate during external chaos which remains only minimally susceptible to terrestrial interference .
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