SPACE ECONOMY 101 | New Space Economy

Infographic explaining their role in financing and developing space capabilities, five application areas, a comparison with ordinary purchase orders, and benefits and limitations for startups, providers, and customers.

ADVANCE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS AND ANCHOR CUSTOMERS

Infographic summarizing venture capital funding for space companies, including five financing stages, investment focus areas, investor criteria, space-sector challenges, and a comparison of VC with grants, debt, and private equity.

VENTURE CAPITAL IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY

Infographic describing with their functions, components, use cases, and roles in moving satellite communications between users, networks, satellites, and destinations.

GATEWAYS, TELEPORTS, AND GROUND STATIONS

An infographic explains how satellite data supports disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience, including risk mapping, early warning, imagery, communications, damage assessment, and humanitarian support.

DISASTER RESPONSE FROM SPACE

Infographic explaining how reprogrammable spacecraft use flexible payloads, onboard processing, secure updates, and open architectures to adapt missions, with comparisons, benefits, use cases, and technical trade-offs.

SOFTWARE-DEFINED SATELLITES

Infographic comparing single-use and recoverable launch vehicles, including their mission sequences, advantages and trade-offs, partial and full reuse, reuse lifecycle, mission requirements, and key considerations such as cost, reliability, turnaround time, payload capacity, infrastructure, and environmental impact.

EXPENDABLE AND REUSABLE ROCKETS

Infographic describing private equity’s investment focus in the space sector, differences from venture capital, value-creation methods, a five-step deal path, reasons for sector investment, and key risks.

PRIVATE EQUITY AND SPACE COMPANIES

Infographic summarizing Earth observation data collection, processing, analysis, delivery, sensor types, applications, strengths, and limitations.

EARTH OBSERVATION EXPLAINED

Infographic describing state-operated launch systems, five mission areas, reasons governments operate them, key strengths and constraints, a five-step program process, and differences from commercial providers.

GOVERNMENT LAUNCH PROVIDERS

Educational infographic describing the orbital region between low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit, including altitude, orbital period, coverage, latency, common mission uses, strengths, and trade-offs.

MEDIUM EARTH ORBIT (MEO)