Space Business Models | New Space Economy

Infographic summarizing satellite delivery of television and audio, including the services sold, paying customers, recurring revenue sources, margin drivers, business risks, and reach across receiving sites.

SATELLITE BROADCAST DISTRIBUTION

Infographic describing a downstream connectivity reseller model: another operator supplies the network, while the reseller sells service plans, equipment, installation and support to consumers, businesses and specialized industry customers; revenue, margins and risks are also summarized.

CONNECTIVITY RESELLING

Infographic explaining how recurring Earth-observation services sell repeated imagery, measurements, or monitoring reports to asset owners, agencies, and industry service providers, with subscription revenue, margin drivers, risks, and a concluding value statement.

MONITORING SUBSCRIPTIONS

Infographic summarizing a specialist supplier’s role in a larger public-sector project, including its products and services, payment from a prime contractor, purchase-order revenue, margin drivers, and business risks.

GOVERNMENT SUBCONTRACTING

Infographic outlines an orbital manufacturing business model, including potential products, customers, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks and the requirement that delivered product value exceed total costs.

IN-SPACE MANUFACTURING

Infographic text describes paid payload-return services, including controlled reentry, recovery, customer groups, revenue sources, margin factors, operational risks, and the importance of protecting payloads during landing and delivery.

RETURN-TO-EARTH SERVICES

Infographic explains a spacecraft inspection service in which a nearby spacecraft observes another spacecraft. It states that the service sells close-range imagery, condition reports and anomaly assessments; serves satellite owners, agencies and servicing providers; and earns revenue from inspection mission fees and monitoring contracts. Useful observations, safe operations and repeat missions drive margin, while access limits, collision risk and incomplete diagnosis are identified as risks.

IN-ORBIT INSPECTION

Infographic describing how multiple customers share one rocket mission through allocated payload mass, volume, and deployment capacity, with sections on customers, revenue, margins, risks, and the business takeaway.

RIDESHARE SPACE LAUNCH

Infographic describing a managed satellite-service model: providers operate satellite capabilities for businesses, agencies, and organizations; customers pay for mission access, data output, or managed services through setup fees and recurring contracts, with risks including high investment and mission failure.

SATELLITE AS A SERVICE

Infographic summarizing the products, customers, revenue sources, margin drivers, risks, and repeat-business factors for suppliers of specialized hardware used in larger space systems.

SPACE COMPONENTS AND SUBSYSTEMS