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The Small Satellite Supply Chain — live

Name: Small Satellite Supply Chain — live market map
Creator: NewSpace Market
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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 2026-10-21 03:28 UTC

1,516 companies tracked 5,751 products & components 482 launch windows ahead 89 company home countries 2,594 datasheets in library

Sector 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 920 Satellite Platforms 715 Communications 592 Software & Services 500 ADCS & Navigation 404 Propulsion 395 Payloads & Instruments 362 Test Equipment & EGSE 328 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	294	920	43	8.5 mo (12 suppliers)
Satellite Platforms	338	715	53	4.5 mo (8 suppliers)
Communications	185	592	40	3 mo (8 suppliers)
Software & Services	259	500	43	—
ADCS & Navigation	112	404	34	2.9 mo (8 suppliers)
Propulsion	126	395	26	6 mo (7 suppliers)
Payloads & Instruments	185	362	35	6 mo (5 suppliers)
Structures & Mechanisms	102	323	25	2.2 mo (8 suppliers)
Power Systems	97	315	26	4 mo (11 suppliers)
Microelectronics & Components	56	308	22	—
OBC & Avionics	103	267	32	—
Launch Vehicles	87	163	24	—
Deployers & Separation Systems	43	159	13	—
Thermal Control	26	99	9	—

What the market looks like

Figures counted from the catalogue and from prices suppliers have published — free to cite — and industry totals quoted with their source.

Market in Numbers

Launches, small satellites, mass classes, operators and start-up investment — BryceTech figures, each linked to its source, set against the platforms and launches listed here.

Component Benchmarks

What an ordinary part in each category weighs, draws and takes to deliver — the middle half of the market, from 5,751 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

2,594 manufacturer datasheets, mirrored so a dead vendor link does not take the document with it.

Launch Windows

482 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.

Download CSV (CC BY 4.0) API access

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 2026-10-21 03:28 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.

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.