Space Business Models | New Space Economy

Cover presenting how space companies create value and earn revenue, with Earth, a communications satellite, a launch vehicle, a ground antenna, a spacecraft laboratory, and three people collaborating around a laptop.

SPACE BUSINESS MODELS

Infographic explains a rapid-response launch business model, covering readiness services, customers with time-sensitive needs, possible revenue sources, margin drivers, risks, and the requirement that the payload, vehicle, and launch site be ready.

RESPONSIVE SPACE LAUNCH

Infographic explaining a space-sector commercial model in which customers pay for reserved capacity that meets agreed availability requirements, with information about buyers, recurring payments, margin drivers, operational risks, and separate usage charges.

AVAILABILITY CONTRACTS

Infographic describing equipment used to connect fixed and mobile customers to satellite networks, with sections on products, revenue, business roles, margin factors, risks, and evaluation considerations.

SATELLITE USER TERMINALS

Infographic states that customers pay for specialist space-hardware testing and documented results, covering vibration, thermal-vacuum behavior, electromagnetic compatibility, radiation response, revenue sources, operating factors, risks, and the limits of testing.

SPACE TESTING AS A SERVICE

Infographic summarizes a proposed off-Earth materials business, covering possible products, prospective customers, funding and supply contracts, value drivers, and risks such as uncertain deposits and difficult processing.

SPACE RESOURCES

Infographic describing satellite-data analysis as a business, including products, customers, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks, and the need to state uncertainty and limitations.

GEOSPATIAL ANALYTICS

Infographic outlines a business model in which satellite operators sell communications capacity to service providers, covering buyers, contracts, margin factors, risks, and end-user services.

WHOLESALE SATELLITE CAPACITY

Infographic summarizes a proposed business model for services supporting sustained activity on the Moon, including power, communications, thermal support, shared facilities, customer groups, revenue sources, value drivers and risks.

LUNAR SURFACE UTILITIES

Infographic describing vehicles that move or deploy payloads after launch, the customers and services involved, revenue sources, margin drivers, operational risks, and the value of reaching a target orbit.

ORBITAL TRANSFER SERVICES