SpaceWorks Market Assessment: NanoSats Beginning to Outstrip Launch Capacity
AAC Microtec CubeSats (Credit: NASA)
A note from SpaceWorks Enterprises:
We have conducted a study looking at recent trends in the launch vehicle market. With the growing popularity of nano/microsatellites, this study seeks to determine whether the current launch vehicle market can sufficiently meet this growing demand. Some of our findings include:
- The total number of launches per year has been relatively constant over the last four years despite the significant rise in number of satellites launched per year.
- Nearly half of 2013 launches experienced significant delay, an unfortunate result for secondary payloads seeking rideshare opportunities.
- Our historical analysis suggests that the current supply of launch vehicles will not sufficiently serve future nano/microsatellite market demand.
- In order to foster the dynamic growth observed in 2013, the launch vehicle market will need to provide more launches and increase the portion of launches servicing nano/microsatellites.
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In a perfect world, the price for cubesats would creep up.
From what I’ve been reading, they are. It’s kinda frustrating for all the educators that hoped cubesats would always be “cheap”.
How much of this is driven by the fact that Generation Orbit Launch Services is a venture of Space Works? Appearances are that the analysis is self serving.