VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 1 Space Industry Bulletin Market analysis and business intelligence for the space community CONTENTS UK spaceport can deliver good Industry news 2 l AMRC to support UK space ambitions service with low launch costs l UK-France space agreement delivers device to ocean satellite nalysis by Frost & Sullivan, The current high estimate for market has high entry barriers, commissioned by the the number of small satellites more than 40 small satellite l Modern regulation will support AUKSA to assess the po - launched during the forecast pe - launch vehicles are under devel - the UK’s growing space sector tential UK market share for ded - riod 2018–2030 is 17,374, with opment and plan to address fu - l UK and Australia enter into icated launch services, supports more than 70% of the satellites ture small-satellite demand space agreement the Government’s conclusion in the <250kg weight class. through dedicated services. To l Spacebit brings EOS Blockchain that there is an opportunity to More than 30 small-satellite this extent, Frost & Sullivan con - to the GSEF invest in spaceports for the small operators plan to launch their cludes that the market can be l Brexit withdrawal agreement satellite launch services market. low earth orbit satellite constel - competitive, albeit between a delay risks greater damage to Frost & Sullivan estimates lation, amounting to a total of small number of providers. confidence that the total UKSA addressable 7,217 satellites. These satellites The two major unmet needs small satellite launch market for have two to five years of satellite of the small satellite operators Market analysis 6 2021–2030 is $5.5 billion. This life and will generate recurring are the launch orbit requirement l UK spaceport can deliver good is against a global high scenario demand for the replacement mis - and near-zero launch wait period. service with low lauch costs of $115.9 billion over the same sions. The existing rideshare launch period, including large planned The existing rideshare capac - services do not address these UK space economy 8 constellations such as SpaceX, ity, with 5% annual growth, is requirements as small satellites l Sector deal key to driving UK which are unlikely to be capable of meeting less than are the secondary payload for space industry forward addressed by the UK space 35% of the total small satellite their mission. l Industry sets out its vision for launch capability. launch demand. Although the l Full report page 6 prosperity from space Satellite market analysis 12 Partnership strategy can deliver l Q2 small satellite market report highlights growing debris issue on vision of prosperity from space l What lies ahead for the smallsats market? he UK space community grow our national share of a the achievements to date, the has created a strategy to worldwide space market predict - sector’s target, within the IGS Space tech investment 16 Tcapitalise on the oppor - ed to be worth £400bn by 2030. vision, of capturing 10% of the l Space Camp Accelerator unveils tunities presented by rapidly ma - This value will be driven by future global market by 2030 is first six start-up companies turing technologies, arguing that investing in science and engi - ambitious, but credible. the opportunities for the UK neering technology – areas Plans have been laid out to Technology 18 space sector and the entire econ - where the UK space sector create a National Space Pro - l Does blockchain hold the key to omy are vast. and/or the UK’s wider technology gramme, create the right envi - democratising space? The sector has independently base is already strong. We must ronment for sucess, invest in assessed the emerging market do this as a partnership – be - people and places, and continue Future missions 19 opportunities open to the UK – tween industry, universities and to drive growth from investments ESA invitatons to tender 20 potentially worth in excess of Government, to harness the in the likes of ESA programmes. UK Space Agency grants 22 £75bn – that will enable us to strengths in each. Given this, and l Full report page 10 THIS ISSUE IN NUMBERS... 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Airbus, has drawn together a The Surface Water and team of high-tech engineers Ocean Topography (SWOT) who will drive improvements in mission is led by CNES and the UK manufacturing base NASA with support from the which is critical to the success UK Space Agency and the of the government’s space age Canadian Space Agency. The mission. UK Space Agency and CNES The unique feature of the to the growth of digitally ports will attract rocket signed a joint statement in initiative is the way it will connected industries and manufacturers and their supply January 2018 during the UK- facilitate collaboration across communities here in the UK. chains to the UK, and the France Summit in Sandhurst not only the whole of the AMRC “We share the vision of development of home-grown to step up including the Nuclear AMRC, exploring space, but our work manufacturing companies, cooperation but also the University of will have real benefit here on taking advantage of the UK’s Sheffield. Earth.” geographical position which John Baragwanath OBE, The launch of AMRC/Space offers opportunities to reach executive director of the AMRC, follows the Government’s orbits used by the majority of said: “This will give Government, announcement of UK space small satellites. and our partners, access to an ports in Scotland and Cornwall “However, it is now well unrivalled range of expertise to meet commercial vertical proven in other advanced and technology to accelerate and horizontal launch demand manufacturing sectors that the creation of a manufacturing estimated to be worth a inward investors are base that can sustain and potential £3.8 billion to the UK increasingly looking to support successful space economy over the next decade. countries that can provide an missions, including satellite Mr Baragwanath said: “It is advanced level of applied technologies that will be critical intended that the new space- research.” Spacebit brings EOS Blockchain to the GSEF he Global Space international space agency. This scheduling system – developed Economic Forum 2018 is the first time that blockchain in collaboration with Goonhilly – T(GSEF) organised and technology, as a topic, was is now in beta testing on the run by European Space discussed at GESF. EOSIO platform. Agency (ESA) included Pavlo Tanasyuk’s present- Mr Tanasyuk noted: keynotes from Spacebit ation, “Democratising Outer “Orbit:Linx is the first space founder Pavlo Tanasyuk, Space – The Impact of communications platform which who talked about the Blockchain Technology on leverages the capabilities of applications of blockchain Future Space Missions” blockchain technology, and has technology for space brought a substantial interest been developed as a cloud- missions and explored the ideas among space industry leaders, native, container-based product behind space asset tokenisation. as the applications and need for from the ground up. We have The conference took place at blockchain technology is chosen EOSIO for its flexibility the European Space Research of ESA’s activities. Among the becoming realised. This is and scalability, and expect it to and Technology Centre (ESTEC) topics discussed were public- already the case for NASA, continue growing as a leading in Noordwijk, the largest ESA private partnerships to increase which is developing blockchain blockchain architecture. It will centre. The conference was access to space and cross- applications for space. democratise access to space opened by the ESA Director cultural initiatives to develop Spacebit has recently data and make space General, who addressed the enabling technologies that can confirmed that the LinkX communications more forum and provided an overview lead to the creation of a truly decentralised ground station accessible.” 2 www.spaceindustrybulletin.com Industry news UK and Australia enter space agreement into space agreement vice to ocean satellite he United Kingdom and Australia will co-operate in space, building on 2014’s can transmit at a power of Ton activities including Brize-Norton framework 1,500W – a level never before communications technologies, arrangement. seen in this kind of device. space situational awareness and The SWOT satellite will use It will now be integrated satellite navigation, Science radar technology to measure into a Radio-Frequency Unit Minister Sam Gyimah has the features of oceans, by Thales Alenia Space before announced. coastlines, rivers and lakes NASA engineers add it to their The Memorandum of Canada and the UK will increase across the globe to improve KaRin instrument developed Understanding, signed at the opportunities to work together understanding of climate at the Jet Propulsion International Astronautical and share information, changes over time and their Laboratory (JPL) in California. Congress in Bremen, Germany, technology and personnel impact on farming, industry The satellite is due to launch provides a framework for between our nations.” and human populations.