How long the hardware takes to arrive

Delivery time is the second question a buyer asks, and almost nobody publishes it — the standard answer is «on request». 218 products in this catalogue do state a lead time, from 57 suppliers. The median across all of them is 3 mo; the spread runs from 2 wk to 60 mo.

Every median here carries its sample size

A median computed over two products looks exactly as authoritative in a table as one computed over two hundred, and quietly turns a report into fiction. So the number of published figures behind each row is shown next to it, and 24 categories with fewer than 8 figures are left out entirely rather than shown thinly. These are quoted lead times, not measured deliveries: what a manufacturer publishes and what a customer waits are not always the same number.

Counted from catalogue records, not estimated. As of 2026-10-21. Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0) — download as CSV.

Category Typical wait Middle half Fastest Longest Figures published
Ground Segment 12 mo 4 mo – 24 mo 4 wk 36 mo 13
Satellite Platforms 5 mo 3 mo – 9 mo 6 wk 18 mo 13
Test Equipment & EGSE 5 mo 4 mo – 12 mo 4 wk 12 mo 21
Batteries 4 mo 1.8 mo – 4 mo 4 wk 6 mo 9
Power Systems 3.4 mo 1.8 mo – 6 mo 4 wk 12 mo 22
Propulsion 3.2 mo 6 wk – 9 mo 4 wk 12 mo 20
Microelectronics & Components 3 mo 2 mo – 3 mo 2 wk 4 mo 31
ADCS & Navigation 3 mo 2 mo – 3.7 mo 4 wk 6 mo 10
Reaction Wheels 2.8 mo 2.8 mo – 2.8 mo 2.8 mo 5 mo 10
Communications 2.4 mo 4 wk – 3.7 mo 4 wk 4.6 mo 16
Structures & Mechanisms 2 mo 4 wk – 2.8 mo 4 wk 12 mo 11
Solar Panels & Arrays 2 mo 1.8 mo – 5 mo 4 wk 12 mo 14
Antennas 4 wk 4 wk – 2.8 mo 4 wk 4 mo 20

«Middle half» is the range the middle 50% of quoted figures fall into — a fairer picture of what to expect than the extremes. Waits shorter than six weeks are shown in weeks, because that is how the manufacturers themselves quote them.

See also: component benchmarks · specification comparisons · specification openness