Emerging Industry Overview: Satellites
Industry Snapshot
The early 2000s represented a period of maturation borne of necessity for satellite makers as the commercial sector delivered some of its worst years in decades, forcing industry players to rethink their business models in order to remain viable and competitive through periods of industry retrenchment. Whereas through the 1980s and 1990s the industry could mostly count on a healthy log of new satellite contracts each year, the first decade of the new century proved that new orders could not always be counted on, as the low number of new satellite contracts befuddled expectations....