New Mexico’s space economy could lift rural communities

Helping communities across the state and region understand these opportunities — and how they can leverage their existing assets — is critical to ensuring New Mexico benefits from this growth.

Official response and confirmed impact

Economic development works best when communities help shape it.

That is especially important in rural New Mexico, where communities understand their strengths, their workforce and the kinds of economic development that make sense for them.

That means looking at the expertise communities already have and asking how it can translate into new opportunities.

How, for example, can our expertise in oil and gas and renewable energy be applied to the challenges companies are trying to solve in space?

Space Valley Discovery Week is an invitation to help shape that future.

If you are a business owner, educator, student, economic developer, community leader — or simply someone who wants to understand what the space economy could mean for your hometown — we invite you to join us.

The next chapter of the space economy is being written now. New Mexico has the assets to help lead it.