The satellite manufacturing and launch markets will face both softening...
The satellite manufacturing and launch markets will face both softening demand and increasing competition until 2016, a Northern Sky Research report said. It said the manufacturing market will be back on an upward track in the second half of the…
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next decade, “while the launch services market will see more years of stagnant growth.” NSR forecast that more than 950 satellites will be ordered between 2012 and 2021, “creating $145 billion of revenues for manufacturers.” With an average rate of 108 satellites launched every year over the same period, “these will bring more than $52 billion to launch services providers and represent a total of 2,200 tons to lift into orbit,” the industry analyst firm said (http://xrl.us/bm75sq).