Market Trends

New York City, NY., November 22, 2022 - The World Teleport Association (WTA) today released How to Win Business from a Telco or MNO, a new research report that details the experiences of teleport and satellite operators and their technology partners that have made the investments necessary to win telco business and the lessons learned about the challenges, requirements and opportunities. The report is sponsored by Kratos.

Paris, France,  November 3, 2022 -- The latest edition of the Prospects for Space Exploration report from Euroconsult predicts global governmental investments in space exploration will reach $31B within the next decade. The report identifies key budget drivers that include the continuation of increased funding in transportation, orbital infrastructure, and in lunar exploration. The public and private focus on establishing a sustainable lunar presence, while also maintaining a sustained LEO human presence, will also beat the heart of space exploration roadmaps in the years to come.

Jaipur, India,  October 21, 2022--According to Market Statsville Group (MSG), the global commercial satellite imaging market size is expected to grow from USD 3.3 Billion in 2021 to US$ 8.5 Bil. by 2030, at a CAGR of 11.1% from 2022 to 2030. Commercial satellite imaging is a technique for displaying high-resolution datasets of ground conditions.

Cambridge, Mass., September 6, 2022 -  NSR launched today the Version 3.0 of its Non-GEO Constellations Analysis Toolkit (NCAT3), enhancing the industry-leading evaluation toolset of LEO and MEO satellite constellations. NCAT3 expands the set of NSR-surveyed systems to 72 sub-constellations and doubles benchmarking capability to 100 concurrent shells.

by Thomas Wrede

Luxembourg, September 5, 2022--In many countries satellite video broadcasting is a major means of linear TV and radio delivery. But consumers today expect the convenience of watching linear and on-demand content on portable devices such as tablets, notebooks and mobile phones. Consequently, most video content providers now have dual-platform operations: a legacy (satellite) broadcast head-end, using MPEG Transport Stream delivery that serves integrated digital TVs or set-top boxes connected to consumers’ main room TV screens, and in addition an OTT streaming platform supporting live and on-demand content distribution, using unicast adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming to mobile devices. 

London, UK, September 1, 2022--Data usage on commercial maritime vessels has jumped more than threefold since 2019, according to new communications analysis by Inmarsat  that underlines the shipping industry’s reliance on digital connectivity to enhance operating efficiency and safeguard crew welfare during a period of unprecedented disruption to seaborne trade.

Paris, France, September 1, 2022–The latest Ground Segment Market report by leading space consulting and market intelligence firm Euroconsult projects the ground station segment to remain quite stable over the 2022 – 2031 period, with a year-on-year growth of 1.4% and a forecasted market value of US$ 3.6 Billion by 2031, driven by the growing demand for data & services.

Cambridge, Mass., August 18, 2022 – NSR’s newly released Space Traffic Study, 2^nd Edition report finds that commercialization of more segments of the space value-chain is driving a rapid increase in traffic volumes. Although markets such as Earth Observation or Space Tourism still only account for 5% of the cumulative data volumes between 2021 and 2031, cloud connectivity and increased investments to downlink data ‘from space’ are paying off in total data volumes.