Space Business: Launch is Over, Head up the value Chain
“Launch is pretty much a solved problem…If you’re planning to be just a pure-play freight company, that obviously has a ceiling,”.
If you really want to grow and expand your business, you can either match the growth rate of launch or capture other parts of the space ecosystem.
In 2019, per the consultants at Bryce Space and Technology, the global launch industry earned $4.9 billion, while satellite manufacturers earned $12.5 billion and satellite network operators garnered $123 billion. If you want to build a city on Mars, or simply deliver growth to your venture investors, you need to head up the value chain.
Source: Space Business: Launch is over — Space Business — Quartz