Bryce looks at the smallsat market taxonomy from different perspectives:
- Smallsats by mass class
- Femto (0.01 – 0.09 kg)
- Pico (0.1 – 1 kg)
- Nano (1.1 – 10 kg)
- Micro (11 – 200 kg)
- Mini (201 – 600 kg)
- Smallsats by application type
- Remote-sensing
- Technology development
- Communications
- Scientific
- Other/Unknown
- Smallsats by operator
- Starlink, Oneweb commercial smallsats
- Other commercial smallsats
- Non-profit
- Government civil
- Government military
- Smallsats by operator country
- Government smallsats by country
- Government smallsats by government organization
- Civil
- … e.g. NASA, NOAA, CSA, JAXA
- Military
- … e.g. US DoD, NRO, People’s Liberation Army
- Civil
- Academic smallsats by institution
- Smallsats by country of launch provider
- Smallsats by launch vehicle category
- Micro
- Medium
- Intermediate
- Heavy
- Super Heavy
- Smallsats by launch vehicle type
- Falcon
- Soyuz
- Antares
- Electron
- Vega
- PSLV
- Other