Market Forecasts

Multiple industry sources report that SpaceX has taken concrete steps toward an initial public offering, initiating a formal "bake-off" to select Wall Street banking partners. This strategic move positions the commercial launch and satellite giant for a potential public listing ...

PARIS — As the satellite ground segment becomes increasingly complex, operators are aggressively shifting strategies to integrate managed solutions and advanced network management. According to the Novaspace’s 6th Ground Segment Market Prospects report this projects a $106 billion market and ...

By Chris Forrester — The past few days have seen the business pages full of reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX could have a value of some $800 billion. The reports had plenty of credibility and built on the truly fabulous ...

The size of the atmospheric satellite market has seen significant expansion in the past few years. It is projected to escalate from $9.98 billion in 2024 to $10.9 billion in 2025, boasting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2%, ...

Eutelsat’s Q1 numbers (it has a trading year that ends on June 30th) shows overall revenues down by 2.2 per cent YoY at €293 million. The division with the largest fall in revenue is Video, and which still accounts for ...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA™), a major IT research and consulting firm released a new report, "Enterprises Embrace AI-Driven Wi-Fi to Meet Today's Network Demands," authored by Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research for network infrastructure and operations at EMA. The ...

Ookla has analyzed country-level train Wi-Fi performance across Europe and Asia, using Speedtest Intelligence. Europe and Asia’s rail networks, long heralded as a backbone of economic competitiveness, are now judged not only on punctuality and comfort but on the quality ...

There are widespread reports that US cellular giant Verizon Communications is negotiating to buy wireless spectrum from EchoStar. Reuters summed up the situation saying the discussions involve EchoStar’s AWS-3 licences, which are valuable for carrying 5G wireless signals. If the ...

Following the launch of the Apple iPhone Air on September 9th, 2025: Emma Mohr-McClune, Chief Telecoms Analyst, Technology at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “While the global press has focused in on the iPhone Air’s ...

Amazon’s broadband-by-satellite service Project Kuiper says it will have broadband coverage in five countries by March 2026. Ricky Freeman, president of Project Kuiper’s Kuiper Government Solutions division at Amazon, speaking at the Novaspace World Space Business Week event in Paris, ...

The global satellite IoT communications market is growing at a good steady pace according to a new research report from specialist IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The global satellite IoT subscriber base grew to surpass 5.8 million in 2024. The ...

Emirates-based Space42 and California-based Viasat have created Equatys, described as a joint-held entity, to enable global Direct-to-Device (D2D) services and evolving existing and planned Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) to a 5G network environment. Equatys will serve to unite satellite and ...

The UK Space sector has been receiving mixed signals from government, with two major announcements highlighting this see–sawing movement. UK Space Agency is folded into governmentThe first is that the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has been absorbed by the UK government’s ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been something of a thorn in the side of Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar, and frequently complaining that EchoStar’s use of its wholly-owned 5G cellular spectrum was inadequate. The past month has seen EchoStar agree a ...

The European Commission has confirmed a significant upgrade to EGNOS, Europe’s satellite-based flight and positioning augmentation system. On August 25th, the GEO-3 satellite Eutelsat 5 West B moved from test to operational status, broadcasting the EGNOS Signal-in-Space. EGNOS, which stands ...

Financial discussions about a potential merger between the two declining DTH operators over North America could be on again. Indeed, those discussions have gone on for years and, despite changes in ownership of DirecTV and enthusiasm from Charlie Ergen, founder ...

Pay-TV operator EchoStar is selling $23 billions-worth (€19.8 billion) of terrestrial spectrum designed to improve 5G and home Internet access. AT&T and EchoStar have also agreed to enhance their long-term wholesale network services agreement, enabling EchoStar to operate as a ...

The World Teleport Association (WTA) will soon be releasing the organization's newest research report, Cyberthreats in Your Own Backyard, in September—this report will be free for WTA Members and available for purchase by others. About the ReportTeleport executives report a ...

The move by the UK government to shift the UK Space Agency into its Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has been described as both good news, and bad, for the UK space sector. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) ...

Saudi Arabia-based satellite operator Arabsat has appointed Dr. Badr Alsuwaidan as President and CEO. Since 2020, Alsuwaidan has served as SVP and CTO, where he played a pivotal role in enhancing operational performance and driving technological advancement. His leadership has ...