Research Overview

Successfully launched and operational small satellite constellations have established proof of concept and new business models in the space ecosystem. This has attracted multiple stakeholders to enter the industry specifically the non-space crowd to address challenges across multiple use-cases to address cross industry geospatial intelligence, IoT and connectivity requirements. Satellite operators have extended their roles to being satellite manufacturers and downstream service providers.

Advancement in technology has allowed the miniaturization of satellites to the extent that their application can be extended beyond technology demonstration missions. This, has led to expansion of the small satellite market segment with majority of satellite constellations focusing on earth observations and communication missions. Majority of these constellations are in LEO and some of them in MEO. The service providers are promising significant increase in coverage at lower cost and low latency for communication and higher resolution and increased re-visit frequency in case of earth observation constellations. This indicates the downtrend for utilization of large satellites, as small GEO is the new rising trend in the market, in addition to LEO based constellations. These phenomenal changes in the market definitely demand the analysis of the past and present state of the market to forecast the future demand. Frost & Sullivan brings to you the unique solution to fulfill this requirement for the space industry stakeholders interested in understanding overall satellite, launch services market.

The database includes operator-wise planned and launched satellites (post 2015) details across different attributes. A little over 618 operators across different user-segments are covered in the database. Interactive outputs in terms of number of satellites, launch payload mass and launch demand revenue forecast segmented across various user segments, application, operator region and mass class.