European Multinational Efforts
2016 – European Commission Space Budget
A growing share of the European public investment in civil space programs is funded by the European Union under the auspices of its executive body, the European Commission (EC), which . . .
2016 – European Cooperative Organization and Government Space Budgets
Apart from the EDA, several national governments in Europe make significant military space spending commitments on a national basis.
2016 – Workforce
The global space industry employs hundreds of thousands of individuals in well-paid cutting-edge technology jobs, and it relies on a pool of highly qualified workers to fill new jobs as they arise. Trends among this workforce, including . . .
2016 – Meteorology – Snapshot
For all of the importance placed on meteorological satellites, they made up a very small part of the ## Earth observation/remote sensing satellites placed in Earth’s orbit during 2016. With a total of ## satellites, ## meteorological-focused satellites were launched or deployed in 2016 than in 2015, during which ## of the satellites with this core mission were deployed. The…
2016 – Indian Space Employment – Snapshot
In India, a significant amount of space activity takes place within the Department of Space, which includes the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its government-owned commercial…
2016 – Satellite Orbits – Snapshot
As in previous years, the most used orbit type is low Earth orbit (LEO). In 2016, 80% of the 219 spacecraft launched or deployed around the Earth were inserted into LEO. The effective range of this type of . . .
2016 – Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems – Snapshot
As the world’s population continued integrating space positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies and services, the number of PNT satellites continued to multiply in 2016, growing slightly more than ##% from 2015. Relative newcomers to PNT space operations, such as Europe, India, and China, grew their PNT constellations, each building an independent…
2016 – Orbital Launch Reports and Forecasts – Snapshot
After many years of conducting launch operations in more or less the same way, the orbital launch industry is experiencing substantial changes on some fronts. In December 2015, one U.S. company was the first to successfully conduct an orbital launch of satellites, then have the space launch vehicle’s (SLV’s) first stage return and land safely on the ground…
2016 – European Space Agency Employment – Snapshot
At ##%, the percentage of female employees is slightly ## in the European Space Agency (ESA) than the European space workforce as a whole, but the proportion of young professionals is…
2016 – Launch Industry – Snapshot
Attempted orbital launches decreased from ## in 2015 to ## in 2016. Of these ## launches, ## successfully reached orbit. There were ## launch attempts for commercial payloads…