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2017 – U.S. Space Workforce
The U.S. Space workforce is composed of more than 173,000 workers across the commercial, civil, and national security sectors. In recent years, the U.S. space workforce has been shrinking, and…
2018 – GPS Ground Networks
In 2018, the USAF continued GPS operations with ground equipment that is decades old. The number of command and control antennas (which the USAF uses to send GPS satellite commands…
2018 – Global Positioning System (GPS)
The U.S. maintained 31 operational GPS satellites during 2018, the same number operational during 2017. While that number of operational satellites is seven more than the minimum number of GPS…
2018 – PNT Satellites – Breakdown by Mission Segment
Like PNT deployments in previous years, the majority of the 27 PNT satellites deployed in 2018, 81% (21) were for military missions. Four satellites (15% of the total) were deployed…
2018 Focusing on Small Satellite Growth and Manufacturing
As readers review the data within the spacecraft section of the Quarter 1 2018 issue of The Space Report, they will probably notice that one company keeps showing up as…
2018 Communications Satellites Breakdown by Country
The top three operators of the overall number of communications satellites deployed in 2018 are headquartered in the United States. Spire Global, a company with a relatively recent and large…
2018 Communications Satellites Breakdown by Payload Type
Of the 128 communications satellites deployed in 2018, 28% of them (36) involved communications for maritime tracking; the greatest number of these were the Spire Global’s satellites discussed below. The…
2018 Communications Satellites Breakdown by Mission Segment
The majority of communications satellites deployed in 2018, 66% (85), were for commercial purposes (or “missions”). Civil government missions ranked second with a 28% share (36). The seven satellites launched…
2018 Communications Satellites Breakdown by Mission Segment
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2017 – Communications Satellites Overview
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 constituted a…