SPACE ECONOMY 101 | New Space Economy

Infographic explaining how sea-based and relocatable launch platforms work, including their advantages, platform configurations, mobile support equipment, comparison with fixed land-based sites, and operational limitations.

OFFSHORE AND MOBILE SPACEPORTS

Infographic explaining how government and industry collaborate in space through shared goals, risks, and benefits, with sections on partnership models, public and private responsibilities, the path from funding to service delivery, advantages, and challenges.

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN SPACE

Infographic about investment in the space economy, covering seven investor types, nonfinancial contributions, a five-stage capital flow, investor evaluation criteria, typical goals, and effects on innovation, scaling, consolidation, and risk tolerance.

THE ROLE OF INVESTORS IN THE SPACE ECONOMY

Infographic explaining how satellite data is collected, processed, analyzed, and used for maritime monitoring, including vessel tracking, fisheries oversight, search and rescue, port awareness, safety, trade, and ocean health.

MARITIME MONITORING FROM SPACE

Infographic explaining the terrestrial architecture linking satellite user terminals with gateway stations, teleports, fiber carriers, internet exchanges, cloud connections, and network operations centers, plus operational functions and gateway location considerations.

SATELLITE INTERNET GROUND INFRASTRUCTURE

A text-heavy infographic explains launch cadence from low to very high frequency and shows that increasing launch volume can spread fixed costs across more missions, reduce average cost per kilogram to orbit, and improve access, while demand, regulations, reliability, and infrastructure can limit growth.

LAUNCH CADENCE AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE

Infographic describing one-to-many distribution of television and radio through a geostationary satellite. It shows content creation, encoding and multiplexing, uplink, satellite transponding, and reception, plus direct-to-home television, radio distribution, contribution feeds, live-event backhaul, orbit benefits, and a comparison with terrestrial or internet delivery.

SATELLITE TELEVISION AND RADIO

Infographic explaining the post-launch transfer of payloads between orbits, including the six-stage mission sequence, common missions, users, benefits, differences from other space vehicles, challenges, and takeaways.

ORBITAL TRANSFER VEHICLES

Educational infographic describing the Earth-Moon region, its transfer trajectories and orbital environments, mission and infrastructure requirements, possible economic benefits, and challenges to sustained activity.

Infographic explaining satellite classifications, seven mission types, GEO, MEO, LEO, and SSO orbits, typical uses, and key takeaways about satellite operations.

THE MAIN TYPES OF SATELLITES