Economy
Commercial Infrastructure and Support Industries
2017 – Commercial Human Spaceflight – Snapshot
Multiple companies are continuing to work toward launching humans on suborbital flights in the near future. Virgin Galactic conducted a successful glide test in January 2018 and hopes to make…
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, which includes the manufacture of spacecraft, launch services, insurance, and…
2017 – Space Insurance – Snapshot
Satellite and launch insurance allows the private sector to manage some of the risk involved in launching and operating satellites, including launch anomalies and damage caused by space weather, debris,…
2017 – Satellite Manufacturing – Snapshot
Among the 443 spacecraft launched in 2017, there were 267 commercial payloads, constituting 60.3% of the total. This was more than triple the number of commercial payloads launched in 2016.[efn_note]Space…
Economy: Space Economy – TSR 2017
Economy: Space Economy - TSR 2017 an annual review of the commercial space infrastructure and support industries and space-based products and services used on Earth, and with research and analysis…
2015 – Space Insurance
Infrastructure support industries include activities that do not directly involve development or use of space assets, but are necessary to the smooth operation and advancement of the industry. This category…
2015 – Commercial Human Spaceflight
In 2015, NASA put in orders with both SpaceX and Boeing to conduct their first operational commercial crew rotation missions under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) Program. The first…
2015 – Ground Stations and Equipment
The ground stations and equipment category is the largest part of the commercial infrastructure and support industries sector. Totaling $## billion, it made up ##% of this sector in 2015.…
2015 – Space Stations
For fiscal year (FY) 2015, NASA spent $## billion on ISS systems operations and research, a decrease of $## million from the $## billion spent in FY 2014. ISS Crew…
2015 – Satellite Manufacturing
[exhibit:spacecraft-market-value-by-country][/exhibit]Aboard the 86 rockets that attempted a launch in 2015, there were 262 spacecraft, down 11% from 296 in 2014. Of the spacecraft intended for orbit in 2015, 126 were…