Commercial Remote Sensing SmallSats

摘要

• Investment continues to flow into remote sensing SmallSat industry even as competition intensifies • In September 2016, NOAA awards $1 million in contracts to Spire and GeoOptics for commercial weather data pilot program. In February 2017, Planet acquires Terra Bella from Google • Market for remote sensing SmallSats expected to grow through late 2020s; production to level off around 2027 as market stabilizes