Increasing demands to reduce spending have led to both new challenges and new opportunities for the global space program. The challenge is to create dramatically lower cost and more responsive space systems and, of course, the launch systems needed to get them to space quickly and at far lower cost. The benefit of creating these new approaches is new opportunities for both business and government to take advantage of rapidly evolving capabilities to create new applications for the new lower cost, more responsive space systems, such as:

• Tactical space systems to serve the needs of the warfighter
• Low cost constellations for global monitoring and homeland security
• Responsive surveillance for man-made and natural disasters