The Russia reopens the space race

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will invest 40 billion euro by 2020 in the space sector. With this statement, officially starts the race to space, no longer understood as a field of scientific research leading, but as economic investment with a view to produce income. Moscow is now the world's third investor in space research, after the United States and the European Union and China before, recently surpassed. Russia wants to move easily in the market, which now has a volume ranging from 300 to 400 billion euro, but that, by 2030, could reach 1.5 trillion. It's a lot of that will move around both the civilian market, both in the military. The considerable momentum that Russia intends to give the sector will involve clear, the whole world diplomacy, which should seek to regulate a sector in full progress, completely overwhelmed by the enormous mass of projects and innovations, such investments will be able to produce. Russian intentions also reveal the goal of Putin to return to their country to be a country star in the space race by putting as strategic pre-eminence in this field, which must be one of the future priorities of the state policy. Moreover since the election campaign for his re-election, Putin has made a nationalist pride flag of its policy and the space sector has assumed a central role in recovering the global position, which was the Soviet Union. The first operations of the space industry must overcome the accumulated distance with the other producer countries, especially in satellite communication systems, media to observe the Earth and in the field of travel in outer space, while on the more purely industrial should be promoted to the construction of rocket launchers, spacecraft and rocket propulsion engines more powerful than the current ones. Among the ideas to better coordinate these programs, there would be the establishment of a Ministry for Space, able to streamline decision-making and bureaucratic to accelerate the economic and productive sector. These intentions, however, will only have a number of repercussions internationally, opening up a number of threads waiting to be deciphered. The significant investments allocated from Moscow will pave the way for as cash flow from other countries, will race for space in the center of legal disputes and military potential carriers of contrasts. In fact, the lack of international law on the use of space, currently empty leaves considerable, that the most powerful nations will rush to fill, not in the general interest, but in their own special interest. This can not but give rise to disputes that will pave the way, at best, new treaties and a new law, while in a pessimistic, can trigger conflict situations also of great importance. Do not underestimate the impact of space, which is already now at the center of discussions, which are, however, no apparent solution. Finally, one of the central issues will be the exploitation of the resources available on other celestial bodies, if that prospect seems still far away, because a rapid growth backed by large sums of money, it will only accelerate. If it is difficult to say when this exploitation can take on a connotation of industrial, we can say with confidence that when you could open a discussion prior to regulation at international level, at least in the guidelines, this argument, which will certainly be very delicate .