2019 State of the Satellite Industry The Satellite Industry in Context

(2018 revenues worldwide, in billions of U.S. dollars)

Telecommunications
Government
• Television
Space •
Global Satellite Industry Revenues Budgets
Non-Satellite
•
Telephone
Broadband 3%
(billions of U.S. dollars) Space Industry
• Aviation
Satellite
$280 Commercial $82.5 Services
• Maritime
Growth
• Road and Rail
2018 Growth $275
Human
Spaceflight
$126.5B Remote Sensing
• Agriculture
2017 − 2018

Satellite
$270
$265
$360B •
•
•
Change Detection
Disaster Mitigation
Meteorology $277.4B
Global Space • Resources Satellite
manufacturing $260
Economy
• Earth Science
Industry
$255 Space Science (77% of Space
and launch $277 National Security Economy)
$250 $269 Ground Equipment

Markets for value- $245 $261 $125.2B Satellite Manufacturing

$255
$240 Launch Industry
added services 246 Network Equipment
$235 Consumer Equipment •
across multiple $230 • Sat TV, radio, & broadband equipment •
Gateways
VSATs
• GNSS units & in-vehicle systems • Network operation centers
segments 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 • GNSS chipsets • Sat news gathering equipment

Satellite Satellite 26% Launch 34% Ground 5%

Services 1.7% Manufacturing Industry Equipment

2018 Revenues
2018 Revenues
$8B $19.5B 2018 Revenues $6.2B 2018 Revenues $125.2B
$126.5B
Television $94.2B $11.5B U.S.
Other (1%)
Navigation
Commercial
Communications
$18.1B
$2.3
$5.8B
Civil/
Radio Consumer Equipment
Military Surveillance
8%
Military
Commu- 93 (37%)
$93.3B
nications
Commercially
Scientific
6% 22% procured
Broadband $2.4B 4% $3.9 launches*
GNSS Equipment
314 (63%)
Satellites 4%
Fixed $17.9B launched in 2018
Included in study
$13.8B
Non-U.S.
18% Network Equipment
39%
Mobile $4.1B Remote
Sensing R&D
* There were 114 total orbital launches in 2018. Of
these, 93 were commercially procured, 15 involved
(VSATs, gateways, etc.)

space vehicles, and 6 were not commercially procured

Remote Sensing $2.1B Satellites Launched by Commercial Launch Revenues

by Region
Mission Type
 2019 Top-Level Global
Satellite Industry Findings
Satellite services, the largest segment;
growth in value-added mobile and
broadband markets ranging 3% – 12%;
1.7% overall decrease, reflecting the
satellite TV and transponder leasing
$277.4B markets
2018 Global Revenues
Satellite manufacturing revenues
$125.2 increased by 26%; several high value
Ground $126.5
Equipment Satellite intelligence and military satellites
3% Services launched in the U.S. and abroad

Growth
2017 − 2018
Launch industry revenues increased by
34%; record number of commercially
procured launches worldwide
$19.5
Launch Industry ($6.2B)
Satellite Manufacturing Ground equipment revenues increased
by 5%; growth in GNSS markets and
For more information on the satellite industry,
or for previous SSIR reports, contact SIA:
network equipment, flat or somewhat
decreasing consumer equipment
Satellite Industry Association
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