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2019 TSRQ3 – Education STEM Proficiency
The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is at the core of the space industry—from the mathematicians and astronomers who analyze space to the engineers who design and build the launch vehicles that get us there. This workforce is enabled . . .
2019 TSRQ2 – Economy: Non-U.S. Government Space Investment
Growth in the government investment sector of the space economy outpaced commercial sectors as the U.S. and non-U.S. government shares of the global space economy between 2017 and 2018. . .
2019 TSRQ2 – Infrastructure: Orbital Launch Vehicle Overview
Introduction |Throughout 2018, nations, multinational organizations, industry, and academia launched payloads and experiments into orbit and on suborbital flights. Six nations, including the European Space Agency (ESA), continued, and in… 2019 Global Space Economy Analysis
Space is a global enterprise, with companies, private backers, and nations around the world investing in commercial, civil, and defense space sectors.
2019 TSRQ1 – Infrastructure: Spacecraft Overview
As of March 6, 2019, information was available about 38 nations that deployed and operated 465 spacecraft during 2018. The number of nations operating spacecraft grew 10% from 2017 to 2018, with 75 total nations operating spacecraft. While . . .
2018 TSRQ4 – Chinese Spaceports
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2018 – Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Satellites
Of the 465 spacecraft deployed during 2018, 6% (27) were for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) missions. These new PNT satellites were added to existing PNT constellations belonging to five nations and the European Union (EU)/European Space Agency (ESA). PNT satellite deployments in 2018 inc… Thank you for visiting The Space Report! The Authoritative Guide…
2018 – BeiDou/CentiSpace – Snapshot
Of all the nations deploying and operating PNT satellites in 2018, China…
2018 – PNT Satellites Mission Segment Breakdown – Snapshot
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 for . . .
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;