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Fig. 4 | Sustainable Earth

Fig. 4

From: From space back to Earth: supporting sustainable development with spaceflight technologies

Fig. 4

Typical progress in technology development measured in performance over time. There will be a fluid phase, where performance increases slightly over time, a technology emerges. The transitional phase sees significant increases in performance, before the curve flattens and finally the specific phase, where only specific parameters are improved, maturation of the technology is high. Based on [41]

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