Analysts at Bryce Tech have examined launch activity around the planet during Q4 2025. Bryce says that during the three-month period SpaceX had a 97 per cent market share of the US market and 83 per cent globally. China came a very distant second with 8 per cent of global launches, and Russia took 4 […]
Analysts and researchers from Bryce Tech say that Iran is planning to launch 23 satellites this coming year. Bryce says that Iran already has 31 satellites in low Earth Orbit and has four active launch rockets at its disposal (Simorgh, Zuljanah, Qased, Qaem 100) and can use three launch sites (Semnan, Shahroud, Chabahar (in development)). […]
Analysts at research consultancy BryceTech say that investment in commercial space ventures attracted about $8 billion (€7.5bn) in 2022. Bryce says that this investment was in the form of 154 deals, involving more than 400 investors, in 123 companies based in 20+ countries. For eight of these companies, 2022 saw their first publicly announced funding. […]
A report from analysts at Bryce Technology says that launching communications satellites dominate the Q1 rocket activity. A total of 869 satellites were launched during Q1. Most of that 869 overall launched were communications craft (81 per cent) and were handled by SpaceX which during Q1, managed 21 launches and 763 actual craft placed into […]
A report from BryceTech, which analyses and updates global rocket launch activity over Q2, says that SpaceX had the most launches during the three-month period. The 16 launches placed an overall 473 spacecraft into orbit, by far the most of any launch provider. Second place went to CASC, the China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation, […]
Virginia-based Bryce Tech, in its latest State of the Satellite Industry Report, says that the overall global space economy was worth $368 billion (€359.4bn) at the end of 2021. The launch industry itself, while valuable, is said by Bryce to be valued at just $5.7 billion, while consumer-based satellite services are worth over $118 billion. […]
A report from research agency Bryce Tech says that employment in the UK space sector grew 7 per cent between 2019 and 2020 and shows no sign of plateauing. Actual employed numbers soared from 44,040 in 2019 to 46,995 in 2020. Bryce Tech says that there are now 1,293 companies and organisations in the UK […]
Bryce Tech, in its annual review of investment in commercial space ventures, says that last year was a record in terms of investment in space start-ups. Start-up space companies attracted more than $15 billion in total financing during 2021, shattering the $7.7 billion record set in 2020. The number of recipients and deals both increased […]
Bryce Space & Technology have created a graphic which explains and details the overall space and satellite industry, and broken down into its various component parts. The overall value of this huge global business is placed at $366 billion (€311.2bn) as at 2019. While the television-related segment is worth a massive $92 billion, an even […]
There may be some doom and gloom about the depressed state of consumer demand on aircraft and other Covid-affected businesses, but an analysis of the overall space industry by Bryce on behalf of the Satellite Industry Association paints a rosy picture for last year. Bryce says that Satellite-based services, representing some 45 per cent of […]