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2017 – Space Products and Services – Snapshot

People and businesses continued to harness space technology and services in 2017, sometimes in surprising ways. New companies are using space-acquired data in new ways, aided in no small part by the ubiquity of the smartphone. Blind people can download an application to a smartphone and explore…

2017 – Commercial Infrastructure and Support Industries – Snapshot

Commercial Infrastructure and Support Industries captures products and services that enable private entities to access and use space. The sector . . .

2017 – China Payload Launch – Snapshot

China’s share of global orbital launch activity fell from its 2016 high of 26% to 20% for 2017. The nation’s 18 launch attempts moved it down in global launch activity ranking from . . .

2017 – Communications Satellites – Snapshot

Aggregate revenues in the satellite communications industry have been relatively static over recent years, even as specific markets grew or declined. The 92 communications satellites deployed in…

2017 – Earth Observation and Remote Sensing – Snapshot

Earth observation (EO) and remote sensing (RS) continued to be the dominant mission type among spacecraft deployed in 2017. Of 443 spacecraft deployed during the year, 232 (52%) were for EO/RS missions. While the share of spacecraft is a slight decrease from . . .

2017 – India Payload Launch – Snapshot

India’s global orbital launch activity share and launch rate both declined in 2017. The number of launch attempts by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) fell to . . .

2017 – Japan Payload Launch – Snapshot

Japanese orbital launch attempts set a new launch record for the nation in 2017. Japan attempted seven SLV launches, growing the nation’s global orbital launch activity share from…

2017 – Satellite Television – Snapshot

Direct broadcast satellites distribute television and radio signals from geostationary satellites to small dish antennas and satellite receivers on the ground. Based on estimates from . . .

2017 – Satellite Overview – Snapshot

The year 2017 was a significant one for spacecraft, with a record-setting 443 satellites deployed. This was a 96% increase from 2016 and easily broke the previous . . .

2017 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot

Nearly half of U.S. government spending, 47.7%, went toward national security space activities within the Department of Defense (DoD) budget. Intelligence programs run by . . .