2017
2017 – Brazilian Government Space Budget – Snapshot
Brazil has experienced widespread economic challenges in recent years, which weakened the Brazilian Real by 51% relative to the US dollar over the past decade. The Brazilian government allocated . . .
2017 – Government Space Budgets – Snapshot
The space investments of governments continue to shift on the basis of national priorities and politics…
2017 – Ground Stations and Equipment – Snapshot
Ground equipment includes the hardware on Earth needed to interact with spacecraft and to receive and make use of the signals that they transmit…
2017 – Commercial Human Spaceflight – Snapshot
Multiple companies are continuing to work toward launching humans on suborbital flights in the near future…
2017 – Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems – Snapshot
PNT satellite constellations continued growing during 2017. Deployments led to a 6% increase in the in-orbit PNT satellite population as a result of Chinese, European . . .
2017 – Earth Observation – Snapshot
The commercial remote sensing industry was estimated at $3.35 billion in 2017, up from $3.09 billion in 2016.
2017 – Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services – Snapshot
Positioning, navigation, and timing services are provided by government-owned GNSS satellite constellations at no cost to users…
2017 – Satellite Communications – Snapshot
Communications satellite services allow two-way data, voice, and video connections. In 2017, revenues in this sector were estimated at $23.20 billion, up slightly from . . .
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 . . .