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EUCASS – 2011 System Integration A SHARE OF EUROPE IN THE GLOBAL SPACE MARKET IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF XXI CENTURY Dr. Andrey K. Soubbotin President of Foundation for Academic Studies and Global Development, leading research fellow of the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Science Introduction Intentions of the leading space powers to start development of Moon resources and manned flights to Mars as well as to transfer to the next phase of the Earth orbits infrastructure functioning including space tourism presented by leaders of the states and representatives of national space industries were to some extent devaluated by the global financial crisis. So the rise of activities in space market coincide in time with great changes in the world order. But theses changes will happen to be not only some obstacles on this way but also will create new opportunities in financial mechanisms and will provide more definite prospects of each space program to be realized. The goal of this study is to ground inevitability of new stage of the space development in the first quarter of this century, to focus on sections and segments of the space market, to evaluate the scale and distribution of sales at this market and to forecast dynamics of expenditures and competition efforts of the leading space powers. 1. A new stage of space development imperative. The claim that it is too early to develop space because a lot of social problems has not been solved on the Earth successfully transferred from the XX to XXI century. The first stage in space development was initiated in the 60-s of the previous century, the next, second stage will be launched in the 20-s of this one. And those who hold the above mentioned opinion do not want to recognize that the world development gave birth to a set of problems which did not exit half a century before and that major part of old social problem were also not solved. Nobody could imagine fifty years ag