Communications Satellites

There were 128 communications satellites deployed in 2018, a 28% share of the 465 satellites deployed . . .

2018 – Swarm/FCC – Snapshot

January 2018 marked the first time a U.S. communications satellite operator deployed satellites without the…

2018 – Communications Satellites Breakdown – Snapshot

The top three operators of the overall number of communications satellites deployed in 2018 are headquartered in . . .

2018 – Communications Satellites Breakdown by Payload Type – Snapshot

Of the 128 communications satellites deployed in 2018, 28% of them (36) involved communications for maritime tracking;

2018 – Communications Satellites Mission Segment Breakdown – Snapshot

The majority of communications satellites deployed in 2018, 66% (85), were for commercial purposes. Civil government missions ranked . . .

Infrastructure: Space Infrastructure

Space infrastructure, like its terrestrial counterpart, is an invisible backbone for services used by people all over the world. Like terrestrial infrastructure, space infrastructure is increasingly relied upon for convenience, services, and . . .

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…

2016 – Communications Satellites – Snapshot

The launch of Telstar 1 in July 1962 brought a novel way to communicate between continents and people. Despite changes in technology since then, the type of communications associated with Telstar 1, the television broadcast, is very much the kind of…

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