Satellite News

NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite 10th Edition report forecasts the global installed base of satellite backhaul sites will surpass 67,000 by 2025 and will generate US$2.1 billion in revenues.

According to Euroconsult’s latest report, High Throughput Satellites: Vertical Market Analysis & Forecasts, High Throughput Satellites (HTS) have continued their proliferation since late 2014 as over 20 new systems were ordered, including an eight satellite expansion order by O3b.

SES S.A. announced the transmission of a record number of TV channels on board its satellite fleet as of 31 December 2015. SES’s TV channel count grew by 11.3% to 7,268 channels during 2015, compared with an overall growth of 2% for the rest of the industry.

According to Euroconsult’s newly published report, FSS Operators: Benchmarks & Performance Review, 2014 was positive for most FSS operators despite the fact that half of revenue-generating FSS operators experienced a slowdown in revenue growth.

According to Euroconsult’s newly released report, Government Space Programs: Strategic Outlook, Benchmarks & Forecasts, a new growth cycle in government space spending is expected to start and average 2.1% over the next ten years worldwide, reaching US$81.4 billion by 2024.

NSR’s 14th edition of the VSAT & Broadband Satellite Markets report forecasts the entire broadband satellite market to add 8.4 million new sites and generate US$13.6 billion U.S. in total revenue by 2024. With both Enterprise VSAT and Trunking/Backhaul remaining increasingly lucrative via HTS supply, North America will lead a two-thirds growth in Consumer Broadband Access.

NSR’s Satellite Operator Financial Analysis (SOFA), 5th Edition, finds that as GEO-HTS payloads continue to become more prevalent, satellite operator business models are encountering dramatic effects, including altered CAPEX cycles, lower backlogs, and falling revenues per transponder.

According to the 8th edition of Euroconsult’s newly published report, Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market Prospects to 2024, over 400 civil and commercial Earth observation (EO) satellites (50 kg) are expected to be launched over the next decade compared to 179 over 2005-2014.