Space Business Models | New Space Economy

Infographic explaining a shared infrastructure business model for communications and positioning around the Moon, including planned relay links, data transfer, navigation services, customers, revenue agreements, value drivers, risks, and a takeaway about reducing mission equipment needs.

LUNAR COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATION

Infographic explains a business model for inspecting, capturing, and disposing of selected orbital objects; it identifies agencies or owners as customers, demonstration funding and contracts as revenue sources, and capture difficulty, collision risk, and uncertain demand as risks.

Infographic describing a model in which space-sector customers rent access to cleanrooms, laboratories, integration areas, and manufacturing equipment, with sections covering users, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks, and cost sharing.

SHARED SPACE INDUSTRY FACILITIES

Infographic explaining commercial human spaceflight economics, including mission services, participant funding, revenue from packages and seat sales, cost and utilization factors, and risks such as safety demands, delays, high costs, and limited capacity.

PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSIONS

Infographic explaining analysis of radio emissions as a business, including signal-based products, customer groups, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks and the need for contextual interpretation.

RADIO-FREQUENCY INTELLIGENCE

Infographic summarizing a commercial model for repairing, replacing, and upgrading space hardware in orbit, including customers, revenue arrangements, margin drivers, risks, and serviceable design.

IN-ORBIT REPAIR AND UPGRADES

An infographic describes a business model for flying a customer payload on another satellite, covering the services sold, paying customers, revenue sources, margin factors, risks and the need to work within shared mission constraints.

HOSTED PAYLOADS

Infographic explaining an intermediary business model that combines multiple payload customers into a launch arrangement, covering the package offered, paying customers, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks, and customer-supply matching.

LAUNCH AGGREGATION

Infographic describes a model for providing imagery, measurements, and derived information through automated digital connections. It lists software developers, enterprises, agencies, and analytics teams as customers; subscriptions, usage charges, and enterprise agreements as revenue sources; and reliable access, integration, and efficient delivery as margin factors. It also lists outages, data-quality issues, and unpredictable usage costs as risks, and emphasizes documentation and dependable delivery.

SPACE DATA FEEDS AND APIS

Infographic describing a satellite connectivity business for remote devices and sensors, including products, customer groups, revenue sources, margin factors, risks, and the importance of useful low-volume data.

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