With 2018 posting a net-positive gain in revenues over 2017, there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the prospects of this market, finally. Setting aside conversations around “Space Force,” or the unexpected allotment of funds toward WGS 11/12, or the additional MILSATCOM procurement happening in Europe, or… well, the list can go on.
Growth will remain modest across the traditional land mobile market; however, there is significant upside potential to connect vehicles — most notably buses, trains and cars with high speed, always on connectivity combining IoT type applications with in-vehicle hotspot internet. While cars have the greatest addressable market, connected trains and buses are a much surer.
NSR quoted in SatMagazine’s The Forrester Report: There are some anxieties over the state of play at the proposed mega-constellation OneWeb and their fleet of LEO satellites. Northern Sky Research (NSR) in a report headline asked, “Can OneWeb cross the Valley of Death?” That’s blunt, but OneWeb has given plenty of reasons not to be cheerful this past.