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On 25 November 2025 China's National Space Administration (CNSA) released a two-year action plan — covering 2025 through 2027 — setting out 22 key measures to formalise and accelerate the development of China's commercial space sector. The plan transitions commercial space policy from a "nurturing" phase (subsidy-pull, loosely regulated) to a "standards-pull / high-quality development" phase, opening national aerospace R&D programmes and launch-infrastructure slots to private operators, establishing a national commercial space development fund, directing government procurement toward commercial launch vehicles and satellites, and unifying previously fragmented provincial regulatory standards. The plan structurally mirrors NASA's COTS/Commercial Crew model and sets commercial operators on course to expand China's ~18% private-firm share of an estimated US$15bn-per-year domestic launch market toward the 2027 horizon aligned with the 15th Five-Year Plan.

On 9 October 2025 the Shandong Provincial People's Government General Office issued Notice 鲁政办字〔2025〕129号, promulgating "Several Measures to Accelerate High-Quality Development of Shandong's Commercial Aerospace Industry," effective on issuance through 31 December 2027. The package targets three sub-sectors — launch vehicles, satellite manufacturing/applications, and aerospace supporting industries — with a province-wide goal of reaching an annual production capacity of 100 commercial rocket launches and 150 commercial satellites, and a commercial-aerospace industry scale of RMB 50 billion (500亿元), by 2027. Concrete subsidy instruments include a sea-launch insurance rebate (up to 35% of "launch insurance" and "third-party liability insurance" premiums, capped at RMB 3 million per project) for operators launching from the Yantai Dongfang Aerospace Port sea-launch platform, a bounty of up to RMB 1 million per product for satellite-application AI models that pass third-party evaluation, and a computing-power subsidy of up to 5% of contract value (capped at RMB 5 million per firm) for satellite applications that procure significant compute. The measures also direct Yantai to anchor sea-launch and integrated manufacturing, Jinan and Tai'an to build out rocket/satellite manufacturing and constellation operations, and Qingdao to specialise in satellite-application clusters and Belt-and-Road-facing services.

On 31 July 2025 the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government issued Yue Ban Han [2025] No. 231, promulgating 21 policy measures across seven categories to accelerate commercial space development in the province through 2028 (published 19 August 2025; in force through 31 December 2028). The package funds satellite-constellation and ground-station buildout (10% capex subsidy, capped at RMB 2m per node and RMB 10m per firm annually), rocket/satellite equipment subsidies (up to 30% of unit sale price, capped at RMB 7-9m per set depending on catalog tier), up to 50% matching funds for qualifying national R&D programs, a 100% pre-tax R&D expense deduction, industrial-park investment rebates (up to 2% of new fixed-asset investment, paid to municipal governments), government procurement preference for demonstration applications, and dedicated investment funds and insurance-premium subsidies for launch and satellite-operator risk. It implements an earlier provincial action plan (2024-2028) and predates China's national CNSA commercial-space action plan (25 November 2025) by four months.

On 25 June 2025 the European Commission adopted COM(2025) 335 final, a proposed Regulation establishing a single market for space activities — the first EU-level framework harmonising the authorisation, registration and supervision of space activities across Member States, replacing 13 fragmented national regimes. The Act rests on three pillars: safety (mandatory tracking of space objects, space- debris mitigation rules, an EU registry of space objects), resilience (cybersecurity requirements scaled to company size and risk profile) and sustainability (environmental impact assessment and active debris-removal R&D). It applies to both EU and non-EU operators providing space services in Europe, giving it extraterritorial reach over SpaceX/Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, OneWeb, Chinese SatNet/G60 and ISRO. The proposal is being negotiated under the ordinary legislative procedure; the Competitiveness Council of 9 December 2025 broadly endorsed its objectives, and the public consultation closed on 7 November 2025.

On 28 March 2024 the Cabinet Office Committee on National Space Policy adopted Japan's Space Technology Strategy, the country's first national space-industrial roadmap establishing priority technology areas (space transportation, satellites, space science and exploration, shared technologies) and the operating framework for the ¥1 trillion (≈USD 6.4 billion) ten-year Space Strategy Fund jointly managed by JAXA on behalf of METI, MEXT and the Cabinet Office. The Strategy sets headline targets of doubling Japan's space-industry market to ¥8 trillion by the early 2030s and reaching ≈30 launches per year. A METI/MEXT/CAO Basic Policy of 26 April 2024 operationalised the Fund's grant architecture, and JAXA opened the first calls in July 2024. The Strategy is the parent authority for subsequent JAXA Space Strategy Fund grant programmes and is Japan's structural counterpart to the EU Space Act (2025) and US National Space Policy.

On 6 April 2023 India's Cabinet Committee on Security approved the Indian Space Policy 2023 (ISP-2023), released publicly on 20 April 2023. The policy is the foundational NewSpace-enablement instrument that opens end-to-end space activities — building satellites, launch vehicles, ground systems, and data services — to private Non-Government Entities (NGEs) for the first time, and codifies the division of responsibilities between ISRO (R&D for advanced technologies), IN-SPACe (commercial-ecosystem authorisation and promotion), NSIL (commercial production / launch services), and NGEs (commercial space activity including ITU filings and asteroid-resource recovery). ISP-2023 is the parent authority for IN-SPACe's subsequent Norms, Guidelines and Procedures (NGP-2024) and for all downstream private launch / FDI rules in the Indian space sector. It targets lifting India's share of the global space economy from ≈2% to ≈10%.