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The Small Satellite Supply Chain — live
Open market statistics computed directly from our open catalogue of space-industry companies and hardware. Free to cite, embed and download — attribution required.
Live data · updated 2026-09-05 11:38 UTCSector catalogues
Every product of one sector in a single document — specifications, manufacturers and where to ask for a quote. Free, regenerated monthly from this catalogue, and downloadable as PDF.
Ground Segment 1014 Satellite Platforms 739 Communications 669 Software & Services 491 Propulsion 483 ADCS & Navigation 449 Payloads & Instruments 389 Structures & Mechanisms 357 All catalogues →
How crowded each category is
Suppliers, not listings — how much choice you actually have, where it sits, and how long the wait runs. Median lead time is shown only where enough suppliers state one.
| Category | Suppliers | Products | Countries | Lead time, median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Segment | 287 | 1014 | 43 | 3 mo (5 suppliers) |
| Satellite Platforms | 342 | 739 | 53 | 4 mo (7 suppliers) |
| Communications | 184 | 669 | 40 | 3.3 mo (8 suppliers) |
| Software & Services | 254 | 491 | 43 | — |
| Propulsion | 127 | 483 | 26 | 7.5 mo (6 suppliers) |
| ADCS & Navigation | 113 | 449 | 34 | 2 mo (9 suppliers) |
| Payloads & Instruments | 184 | 389 | 35 | 6 mo (5 suppliers) |
| Structures & Mechanisms | 102 | 357 | 25 | 2.8 mo (7 suppliers) |
| Microelectronics & Components | 55 | 340 | 22 | — |
| Power Systems | 97 | 325 | 26 | 4.4 mo (10 suppliers) |
| OBC & Avionics | 103 | 275 | 32 | — |
| Launch Vehicles | 90 | 191 | 25 | — |
| Deployers & Separation Systems | 43 | 180 | 13 | — |
| Thermal Control | 27 | 111 | 9 | — |
What the market looks like
Figures counted from the catalogue and from prices suppliers have published — free to cite.
Component Benchmarks
What an ordinary part in each category weighs, draws and takes to deliver — the middle half of the market, from 6,213 catalogued products.
Lead Times
How long each class of hardware takes to deliver, from the figures manufacturers actually publish — with the sample size behind every median.
Services Landscape
What the industry sells besides hardware: engineering, testing, mission operations, ground segment and launch brokerage, by kind and by country.
Segment Landscape
How crowded each part of the market is: how many distinct suppliers list hardware in a segment, how many countries they come from, and what a typical supplier offers.
Specification Openness
How much of the industry publishes its numbers rather than holding them behind a request form — by segment and by supplier.
Launch Access
What is announced ahead, by target orbit and by provider — and how little of it carries an actual date. Counted from the launch database, not from press releases.
Supply Chain Geography
Where the industry actually sits: organisations, commercial suppliers and launch providers by country, with how many products each country lists and how many publish a datasheet.
Component Comparisons
Every listed model of a component class in one table — mass, power, voltage, envelope, and the figure that decides the choice in that class. Downloadable as CSV.
Rideshare Price Index
Only prices providers have actually published, each with its source and the date it was quoted. Reviewed quarterly.
Annual Report 2026
State of the Small Satellite Supply Chain — the industry counted, not estimated. Web edition and a citable PDF.
Datasheet Library
2,476 manufacturer datasheets, mirrored so a dead vendor link does not take the document with it.
Launch Windows
365 launch windows still ahead, tracked from the global manifest.
What yours will cost
Planning-level ranges built on the figures above. Neither is a quote — both end in an RFQ to the suppliers who can give you one.
Launch Cost Estimator
The ride only. Payload mass and target orbit in, an indicative price band for rideshare, dedicated launch or a last-mile tug out.
Mission Cost Estimator
The whole build. Subsystems, launch, integration and first-year operations for a CubeSat, broken down by line item.
Methodology & license
All figures are computed live from the NewSpace Market catalogue (cache: 12 h) — they change as the catalogue grows and are not estimates or extrapolations. A company is counted once per profile; products are counted per top-level category including subcategories. Data © NewSpace Market, licensed CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with a link to this page. Because the catalogue is updated continuously, cite with the retrieval date: “NewSpace Market Intelligence, retrieved 2026-09-05 11:38 UTC”. Weekly snapshots of every figure on this page are retained, so a value can be reconstructed for any past week.
What the market is looking at
The most-opened entries in the catalogue over the last 30 days. Every other figure in this section describes what exists; this one describes what people are actually reading about — the one signal a catalogue can see and a brochure cannot.
Products
- 1GNOMES — GNSS Radio Occultation Weather Data ConstellationPlanetiQ
- 2MicroGEO SatelliteAstranis Space Technologies
- 3Pulsar Verified Receiver Integration ProgramXona Space Systems
- 4Smallsat Constellation and Operations ServicesChangsha Tianyi Space Technology
- 5piPATCH-ADSBSkyFox Labs s.r.o.
- 6IM-300 Series Satellite PlatformIntuitive Machines
- 7Vast Satellite (15 kW-class satellite bus)Vast Space
- 8HiK Plates / Heat Pipe AssembliesACT (Advanced Cooling Technologies)
Services
- 1Ground Segment & Mission OperationsRSat Space
- 2Launch SecuringUniversity of Texas at Austin
- 3Launch InsuranceSAB Launch Services
- 4Storage and Transportation to the Launch SiteSAB Launch Services
Companies
Ranked, not scored: view counts are not published, because a supplier should not be able to read a competitor's traffic off a public page. Counted after three seconds on the page; crawlers and companies viewing their own listings are excluded. Updated every three hours.