Patrick Collins is Chairman of the Society for Space Tourism of Japan (SSTJ) and Emeritus Professor of Azabu University, where he taught economics for 19 years.
Earlier he was a Guest Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of Tokyo University (RCAST), the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), and the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan, after being Senior Lecturer at Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the economics of solar power satellites.
He is also a Vice-President of Space Renaissance International.
The focus of Dr. Collins' research for the past 40 years has been how to stimulate the growth of commercial space activities, the two most important opportunities being tourism and solar power satellites, including their use as snow melting satellites (SMS).
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