With a projected $1.8 trillion space economy by 2035, regions around the world are looking to leverage the space domain for a variety of use cases. Countries in Europe and the Indo-Pacific want space technologies for national security-related missions like missile warning and space domain awareness. Meanwhile, in other regions like the Middle East and the Global South, countries want to use space technologies for civil applications like environmental monitoring and economic growth. But despite this broad range of motivations for leveraging space, every country around the world has one, universal need: the need for space expertise.

In this episode of "The Elara Edge," Brad Head, Managing Director of International Partnerships at Elara Nova, takes us around the world of space to understand how each region of the world is looking to leverage space capabilities. A retired colonel with the United States Space Force, Brad has served in a series of high-impact roles: Director of International Affairs at Space Operations Command; Chief of Defense Planning at the U.S. Mission to NATO; and Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation in Brussels.

"The Elara Edge" is hosted by Scott King and produced by Regia Multimedia Services. The full story can be found on Elara Nova's Insights page here. Music was produced by Patrick Watkins of PW Audio.