..., the global space sector generated $330 billion in revenues. According to a 2015 Euroconsult report on small satellites, 510 SmallSats will be launched in the next 5 years, valued at $7.4 billion. This figure does not include any of SpaceX' planned...
... monitoring, consumer IoT applications and simple communications. The company plans to launch a fleet of more than 100 smallsats with launches expected to start in 2018. In April 2017, it raised AUD$5 million in a Series A funding round led...
...half of the investment dollars being sown in the past two years [1]. These investments are in commercial operational smallsat projects, not merely technology demonstration and basic science experiments made by government space organisations. And they...
...Galactic and Rocket Lab but with more than 10,000 smallsats predicted to be launched worldwide over the next 10 years... vehicle aims to cater for the burgeoning domestic and international smallsat market. The XL is still undergoing final design, and ...
Back in 2011, when Planet Labs was just a handful of engineers and scientists working in a garage in Cupertino, California, I was one of the first employees of the company and my main role was working on the radio subsystem. Being at a startup, I ...
... cost and schedule benefits even for large companies, governments and space agencies. The growth of the smallsat market has parallels with the emergence of the personal computer in the late 1970s and early 1980s...