An enabler or a barrier? "NewSpace" and Japan's two national space acts of 2016

Engineering & Materials Science

• Satellites 56%
• Remote sensing 50%
• Industry 42%
• Space debris 33%
• National security 30%
• Tourism 29%
• Launching 27%
• Rockets 25%
• Orbits 21%
• Demonstrations 19%
• Recovery 16%

Physics & Astronomy

• Japan 100%
• licensing 35%
• remote sensing 17%
• suborbital flight 16%
• space tourism 16%
• resources 15%
• space debris 11%
• launching 9%
• rockets 9%
• recovery 6%
• orbits 5%
• high resolution 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• permitting 22%
• national security 10%
• space debris 9%
• remote sensing 9%
• authorization 9%
• jurisdiction 8%
• resource 8%
• removal 7%
• tourism 6%
• flight 6%
• regulation 5%
• project 3%
• comparison 3%
• analysis 1%