Paper che analizza l’intera spesa “spaziale” civile negli USA dal 2023 fino al budget proposto nel 2025. Vengono elencate tutte le agenzie coinvolte, le funzioni e le varie voci di spesa di interesse spaziale. Lo segnalo a parte, invece che nel thread sul budget 2025, perché ritengo potrà essere un valido riferimento anche per discussioni future.
This paper presents an overview of the U.S. federal civil space budget between FY23 and proposed spending in FY25, providing a foundational reference dataset for civil space budget analyses. Projects that support, enable, or leverage space activities for civil purposes are found in more than 100 individual line items spread across 17 federal departments and agencies and are funded by 4 different appropriations bills. Across all these elements, civil space-related appropriations total roughly 44 billion dollars in FY25, of which NASA constitutes about 58 percent (Figure 1).
The first half of this paper presents the federal civil space budget across departments and agencies that have submitted their own reports to Congress, listed in alphabetical order. Each entry includes the relevant appropriations bill that funds the department or agency, the establishing legislation for the department or agency (not including subsequent changes), a brief description of the department or agency, and its connection to civil space. Some agency section titles are independent agencies, while others are represented separately for submitting their own reports to Congress but technically exist within departments. Those sections denote the department under which the agency lives. Each section contains a table of curated line items that ultimately tally the amounts appropriated from FY23 to the requested amounts of FY25. The totals per table estimate civil space contributions contributed over all line items, except where noted.
The second half of this paper reorganizes the same federal civil space budget information into a set of categories that reflects national priorities and spans
multiple departments and agencies or includes different parts of an agency’s budget. Each section contains a description of the category, and its tables have an additional column to denote what agency the line item is from. Citations for all values in these sections can be found in their original department or
agency tables.