Fully Integrated Space Hub

My proposition is for any country that wants to excel in the space race. A space hub that is vertically and horizontally integrated. All the facilities do not need to be completed at the same time. However, their location should be reserved and establishment roadmap planned in advance.

Fully integrated Space Hub should contain all the R&D and manufacturing facilities. It should include the housing and supporting facilities of the employees with their families. The manufacturing facilities should be scalable to allow expansion. CNC and 3d printing facilities should be 7/24 operational to speed up the R&D cycle. This is critical especially for Europe where the working hours are limited. The propellent production and storage facilities should also be established such as RP-1 or methane and oxygen.

The hub would manufacture rockets as well as satellites. Ideally, the rockets would be reconfigurable to allow various space missions. Additionally, standardized satellites would be manufactured in high volume. Individual companies would alter parts to differentiate them, however their outer shape would be the same for efficient payload occupation.

The hub should have connection to railway, highway, airport and harbor. The railway connection can be single lane. Airport can be a medium length runway. The harbor would be used to transport exported materials such as fuel and heavy raw materials.

The hub should have a university campus as well. All the departments would be related to space. The education level would be masters and above. It would have summer schools and similar programs for successful foreign students as well. It should have enough accommodation for all the students.

A nice to have feature for the hub would be a theme park. It would have the space museum, hotels and mini rocket launch site where students and amateurs periodically compete.

When the country has a space strategy that relies on companies distributed all around, the R&D process takes much longer. Additionally, it would be difficult to achieve high production rates to allow frequent launches. Non-standardized satellites reduce the number of satellites put to orbit for every launch.

Finally, the hub would be powered mainly by the renewable energy sources.