Market Trends

Cambridge, Mass., December 14th, 2021--NSR’s newly released Global Satellite Ground Segment, 6^th Edition report, finds strong post COVID-19 return to growth for the Ground Segment, illuminating a massive increase in upcoming satellite capacity supply. With a double-digit growth forecast, cumulative industry revenues reach US$ 147 Billion through 2030.

Paris,France,December 8, 2021– Euroconsult has released its “Satellites to be Built & Launched” report for 2021, the latest edition in a series that has consistently set the industry benchmark for analysis of the satellite market. The 17,000 satellites expected to be launched in the next ten years represents a fourfold increase over past decade, reflecting structural changes in the whole space ecosystem and a limited short-term impact of the pandemic.

Cambridge, Mass., December 6, 2021 – NSR’s newly released Space Traffic Study report finds that the amount of data to/from space will reach more than 500 exabytes of information from 2020 to 2030. Driven by the increasing needs for satellite-based connectivity and Earth Observation, data either generated in space or traveling through space will be roughly the equivalent of 3.9 Billion average capacity smartphones over the next ten years. While still a ‘drop in the bucket’ compared to terrestrial networks, space data volumes are expected to increase 14x over the next ten years.

New York, NY, Dercember 1, 2021--According toABI Research, the serviceable addressable market (SAM) for global satellite broadband over geostationary (GEO), medium earth orbit (MEO), and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will stand at 330 million premises, equivalent to 1.3 billion household members in 2026.

Geneva, Switzerland, December 1, 2021--New data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), ​​​​showed that an estimated 37 per cent of the world's population – or 2.9 billion people – have still never used the Internet. The ITU report also revealed strong global growth in Internet use, with the estimated number of people who have used the Internet surging to 4.9 billion in 2021, from an estimated 4.1 billion in 2019. ​​​​An estimated 37 per cent of the world's population – or 2.9 billion people – have still never used the Internet.

Dublin, Ireland, November 23, 2021--The Satellite Transponder Market was valued at US$ 17.01 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach US$ 23.19 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 5.3% over the forecast period 2021 - 2026 acording to new reserach from Research and Markets. Satellite transponders are minor chip size circuits that are integrated into satellites for the purpose of transmitting the uplink data or information to the downlink and vice-versa.

Cambridge, MA - November 22nd, 2021 – NSR’s newly released Big Data Analytics via Satellite, 5^th Edition (BDvS5) report sees EO and M2M/IoT Satcom Big Data applications driving Big Data market revenues to over US$ 22.1 Billion through next decade. As value chain evolution ramps up opportunity across the Big Data Market, nascent markets rapidly adapting to new standards propel Big Data adoption across multiple regions.

New York City, NY – November 11, 2021–The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released How to Profit from Customers’ Digital Transformation, a new research report that explores the status of digital transformation in the industry and the benefits and challenges it presents.

Cambridge, Mass., November 10, 2021 – NSR’s newly released Government and Military Satellite Communications, 18^th Edition report finds that despite COVID-19, troop drawdowns in the Middle East and ongoing pricing compression, demand for connectivity will continue to grow in the long term. At over US$ 6.6 Billion in revenue in 2020 – the market was at the tail end of its growth phase and is now entering a short-medium term shaped by many factors.  

Cambridge, Mass.,November 3, 2021 – NSR’s Satellite Industry Financial Analysis, 11^th Edition report, launched today, projects the global satcom industry contracted by 2.3% in FY2020 to USD $13.4 Billion. While continuing sector trends such as a weakening DTH sector and COVID-19 impacts on aeronautical and maritime markets drove declines, enhanced revenue from spectrum leases, consumer broadband, backhaul and government services point to growth potential on the horizon.