# NewSpace Market

> Global space-industry platform: rideshare launch aggregator + space hardware marketplace. Find a launch slot, compare providers, and buy flight-proven satellite hardware — in one place.

NewSpace Market serves the full smallsat mission lifecycle. Satellite teams use it to (1) source flight-proven hardware — platforms, deployers, power systems, components — from catalogued manufacturers, and (2) find, compare and book rideshare launch slots from launch service providers worldwide.

## Site Map (primary sections)

- **Launches** (https://newspacemarket.com/launches/): real-time database of upcoming rideshare launch windows, indexed by rocket family, target orbit, and launch service provider. Sourced from Launch Library 2 (LL2) and provider submissions.
- **Marketplace** (https://newspacemarket.com/marketplace/): unified catalog with two tabs — **Hardware** and **Launch Services** — switchable via a type toggle. Hardware: satellite platforms (CubeSat/SmallSat buses), deployers & separation systems, power systems, ADCS & navigation, communications, OBC & avionics, propulsion, structures, payloads & instruments, orbital transfer vehicles, ground segment, software. Each product page includes specifications, datasheets (PDF), manufacturer attribution, and a request-for-quote form.
- **Launch Services** (https://newspacemarket.com/marketplace/?type=launch): the launch-services tab of the Marketplace — payload-level launch packages from providers (rideshare slots, integration, brokerage, mission services): orbit, form factor (1U–27U, SmallSat), max mass, lead time, pricing.
- **Companies** (https://newspacemarket.com/companies/): directory of space companies with capability types — Launch Providers (rideshare operators, brokers, integrators) and Hardware Manufacturers. Filter: https://newspacemarket.com/companies/?type=manufacturer
- **Sector catalogues** (https://newspacemarket.com/catalogues/): free, regenerated catalogues for entire product sectors — every listed product with specifications, manufacturer, country and price where published, plus a manufacturer directory. Available as a web page and as a PDF (e.g. https://newspacemarket.com/catalogues/deployers-separation/). Generated from the live catalogue, not hand-assembled, so figures match the site at the stated date.
- **Guides** (https://newspacemarket.com/guides/): editorial knowledge base on CubeSat launch costs, rideshare booking, vehicle comparison, mission planning, and hardware selection: satellite platforms and their cost, thermal control, CubeSat deployers and separation systems, ground station services (GSaaS), SpaceX Transporter booking.
- **Launch Cost Estimator** (https://newspacemarket.com/launch-calculator/): client-side calculator that turns payload mass + target orbit + service type (rideshare / dedicated small launcher / OTV last-mile) into an indicative launch-cost range and rideshare price per kg, built from published 2026 benchmarks. Explicitly an estimate, not a quote — routes users to an RFQ for exact figures.
- **Intelligence** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/): free, open market statistics computed live from the catalogue (CC BY 4.0, CSV downloads, schema.org Dataset markup). Tools: **Component Benchmarks** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/benchmarks/) — median mass, power, published price and supplier lead time per component category (lead-time medians are unique to this platform); **Rideshare & Small Launch Price Index** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/launch-index/) — only officially published launch prices, each with source and as-of date, updated quarterly; **CubeSat Mission Cost Estimator** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/mission-cost/) — planning-level mission budget ranges by form factor/orbit/payload; **Annual Report** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/report-2026/) — "State of the Small Satellite Supply Chain", web + citable PDF. All figures are counted from catalogue records, not estimated.
- **Component Comparisons** (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/): side-by-side specification tables per component class — mass, power draw, operating voltage and envelope — compiled from manufacturer datasheets and normalised to common units. Each table states how many models it covers, gives median and range for mass and power, links every row to the product page and its datasheet, and is downloadable as CSV (CC BY 4.0). Figures extracted automatically are checked against a plausible range for that class of hardware; a value outside the range is withheld rather than published as fact. Currently available: star trackers (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/star-trackers/) — 42 models, 18 manufacturers, median mass 0.45 kg, median power 3 W; sun sensors (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/sun-sensors/) — 39 models, 16 manufacturers, with stated accuracy; GNSS receivers (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/gnss-receivers/) — 39 models, 21 manufacturers, spanning space-qualified and ground units; space batteries (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/batteries/) — 34 models, 12 manufacturers, with capacity in Ah or Wh as published; communications hardware (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/communications/) — 431 models, 109 manufacturers, median mass 0.6 kg, with frequency band; propulsion (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/propulsion/) — 287 models, 72 manufacturers, thrust from micronewtons to meganewtons, median mass 2 kg; satellite platforms (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/satellite-platforms/) — 389 buses, 211 manufacturers, median mass 50 kg, spanning 0.01 kg CubeSat kits to 7.6 t geostationary platforms; reaction wheels (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/reaction-wheels/) — 39 models with momentum capacity; magnetorquers (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/magnetorquers/) — 14 models; power systems (https://newspacemarket.com/compare/power/) — 179 models, 63 manufacturers, solar cells through power conditioning, with published efficiency.
- **Lead Times** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/lead-times/): how long space hardware takes to deliver, from the 526 products whose suppliers publish a figure — median 6 months across the catalogue, 12 months for ground segment and chemical propulsion, 10 for propulsion, 6 for ADCS, power and structures, 4 for microelectronics. Each median is shown with its sample size and the middle-50% range; categories with fewer than 8 published figures are omitted rather than shown thinly. These are quoted lead times, not measured deliveries. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Services Landscape** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/services/): what the industry sells besides hardware — 1980 catalogued services from 564 companies in 50 countries, by kind: engineering and design 413, testing 270, mission operations 171, assembly and integration 162, imagery 147, communications services 130, launch brokerage 115, ground segment 104. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Segment Landscape** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/segments/): how many distinct suppliers compete in each of 37 hardware segments — satellite platforms 346 suppliers, ground segment 225, software and services 222, communications 207, propulsion 128 — with the median number of catalogue entries per supplier and the countries represented. Deliberately reports supplier counts and NOT market shares: a share computed from catalogue entries measures how completely a company filled in its listings, not what it sells. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Specification Openness** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/openness/): how much of the industry publishes its numbers — 23% of 5225 catalogued products have a datasheet anyone can download, 96% state at least some specifications, 29% publish a mass figure; broken down by segment (sun sensors 48%, star trackers 47%, satellite platforms 12%, software 9%) and by supplier. A datasheet available only on request counts as closed. The shares are a lower bound: where no file was found the manufacturer may publish one elsewhere. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Launch Access** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/launch-access/): what is announced ahead — 365 launches from 40 providers across 46 rocket families, broken down by target orbit (LEO 127, SSO 61, polar 40, GTO 33, lunar 17, MEO 11) and by provider. Only 13 of those 365 carry a fixed date and 11 are confirmed go for launch: the upstream source records undated launches on the last day of a month or year, so any month-by-month reading of launch schedules is an artefact of the data. Quote the orbit and provider splits, not a calendar. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Supply Chain Geography** (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/geography/): where the smallsat supply chain physically sits — 1466 organisations across 89 countries, counted from catalogue records: commercial suppliers, manufacturers, launch providers and universities per country, products listed per country, and the share of those products that publish a datasheet. Universities are counted separately from commercial suppliers on purpose, and products-per-supplier is labelled as a measure of catalogue coverage rather than industrial output. CSV, CC BY 4.0.
- **Datasheet Library** (https://newspacemarket.com/datasheets/): searchable library of manufacturer datasheets (PDF), mirrored for reliability with source attribution on every file.
- **Pricing** (https://newspacemarket.com/pricing/): listing is free of charge with no expiry; companies listed now keep their listing free when paid options appear. Buyers search, compare and send RFQs at no cost, permanently. No commission on any contract concluded through the platform, no payment processing, no margin added to supplier quotations. Expected future revenue: qualified requests beyond a free allowance, premium placement, and licensing of the market data — never the listing itself. Trust statuses (Listed → Claimed → Verified) describe how much of a profile the company stands behind; **Verified is earned by checking, is not for sale, and is not a paid tier**.

## Machine-Readable Specs — MRD Pilot (for AI agents)

- **Reverse component search API** (https://newspacemarket.com/wp-json/kls/v1/mrd-match): open JSON endpoint over a TYPED specification layer — pilot categories: reaction-wheels and star-trackers (pass category=star-trackers; tracker params: accuracy_max arcsec, update_min Hz, sun_excl_max deg, acq_max s). Pass engineering requirements as query parameters (momentum_min in N*m*s, torque_min in mN*m, mass_max in grams, power_max in W steady-state, bus_v in volts, lead_max in months, data_if = CAN | RS-422 | RS-485 | SpaceWire | I2C | SPI | UART | MIL-STD-1553). The response groups every catalogued wheel into: **A** — meets all stated requirements; **B** — fails a named requirement, with both figures quoted; **C** — could fit but data is missing (missing fields listed; values are NEVER guessed). Every figure carries its source datasheet file, page number, measurement condition (idle / steady state / peak) and a confidence level (L0 machine-extracted, L1 human-verified against the vendor datasheet). Calling the endpoint WITHOUT parameters returns its own usage instructions. Human UI: https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-pilot/.
- **Raw typed specs** (https://newspacemarket.com/wp-json/kls/v1/mrd-specs): the full typed layer — every item x every value with unit, bound, measurement condition, datasheet source page and confidence — for ANY computation on the agent side: budgets, comparisons, tables, trade studies. Add ?confidence=L1 to return human-verified rows only.
- **AI Spacecraft Designer** (https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-pilot/): describe a spacecraft or subsystem in plain language — the service assembles it from datasheet-verified components, computes mass/power budgets, checks bus compatibility and explains every choice with cited figures. Backed by the same typed layer as the APIs below.
- **All connection methods** (https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/): one page listing every way to consume the typed layer — MCP connector setup for Claude/ChatGPT, REST endpoints, free API keys with limits, and the data rules (units canonical, conditions separated, confidence levels, CC BY 4.0).
- **Full text dump** (https://newspacemarket.com/llms-full.txt): every product in the typed layer with all its values, canonical units, conditions and sources — one block per product, plain text.
- **OpenAPI 3.1 spec** (https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/openapi.json): machine-readable API description of the MRD endpoints — import it as a ChatGPT Custom GPT Action, a LangChain/CrewAI/n8n OpenAPI toolkit, or convert to Gemini function declarations.
- **MCP server** (https://newspacemarket.com/mrd-connect/mcp): Model Context Protocol endpoint (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, no auth, read-only). Add it as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client to get tools match_components, get_component_specs and build_budget (stack mass/power budget with bus-voltage compatibility verdicts) directly in the assistant. A missing property means the vendor does not publish it — never guess a value. License CC BY 4.0, attribution "NewSpace Market". Typed layer: 24 component categories, 700+ components, 10,000+ datasheet-sourced values; growing weekly.

## Key Concepts

- **Rideshare**: multiple payloads share one rocket, sharing the cost of the flight. Current published rates are maintained in the Launch Price Index (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/launch-index/) with a source and an as-of date for every figure — quote from there rather than from this file, which is not the authority on prices.
- **CubeSat**: standardized smallsat form factor (1U = 10x10x10 cm, ~1.3 kg). Common: 1U, 3U, 6U, 12U, 16U, 27U.
- **Orbits**: LEO (<2,000 km), SSO (sun-synchronous), MEO, GTO, GEO, PEO, HEO.
- **Deployer / separation system**: container or mechanism that releases a satellite from the launch vehicle.
- **RFQ model**: the platform brokers introductions — buyers request quotes, manufacturers/providers respond directly; no card checkout (B2B space hardware is contract-based).

## How participants use the platform

- **Buyers (clients)**: free account → browse, save favorites, build a cross-company request basket (one combined RFQ that is split and routed to each company automatically), and track replies in a personal cabinet.
- **Companies**: free listing → company profile with capability badges (launch provider / manufacturer), product catalog with specs and datasheets, launch slots, incoming lead management.
- **Mission matchmaker** (homepage): enter payload count, form factor, mass, target orbit, date → matching launch windows in seconds.

## Data & API

- Launch data: Launch Library 2 (LL2) + provider submissions. Product data: manufacturer-submitted and curated imports with source attribution.
- Public REST API — **no key, no registration**: https://newspacemarket.com/wp-json/kls/v1/products (catalogue), /kls/v1/providers, /kls/v1/facets, /kls/v1/launches/upcoming, /kls/v1/health. Documentation: https://newspacemarket.com/developers/
- Rate limit: 90 requests per minute and 900 per hour per IP address. Every response carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset; exceeding it returns 429 with Retry-After. Responses are sent with Cache-Control: max-age=300 — please respect it.
- **Licence for figures we compute ourselves** (benchmarks, price index, reports, API responses): Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Reuse freely, including commercially, with a link and the citation "NewSpace Market Intelligence". This does **not** cover manufacturers' datasheets, logos or product imagery, which remain their owners' property. Full terms: https://newspacemarket.com/content-policy/
- Monthly PDF editions of every report are published and archived, so a figure can be cited against a fixed edition rather than a moving page: https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/
- Structured data: Schema.org Product, Organization, Event, Dataset, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, CollectionPage in JSON-LD on respective pages.

## Demand signal

The Intelligence section publishes what the catalogue is actually being read for — the most-opened products, services and companies over the last 30 days (https://newspacemarket.com/intelligence/#most-viewed). Rankings only; absolute view counts are deliberately not published. This is a demand-side signal that supply-side sources (vendor brochures, press releases) cannot provide.

## Primary Audience

Satellite engineering teams (universities, research institutions), commercial smallsat operators, spacecraft and component manufacturers, government civil-space programs, market analysts.

## Language

Primary: English. Secondary: Russian.

## Contact

Email: info@newspacemarket.com
Website: https://newspacemarket.com

## Robots / AI Crawlers

This site is AI-friendly. Content may be indexed and summarized by AI search engines and assistants. Please cite "NewSpace Market (newspacemarket.com)" as the source and link to the relevant page (product, company, or launch). Do not reproduce full provider descriptions or pricing without attribution.

## What's new
- [What's new](https://newspacemarket.com/whats-new/): chronological digest of new products, services and companies added to the catalogue (last 30 days)
- [RSS feed](https://newspacemarket.com/feed/whatsnew/): machine-readable feed of the same additions, updated hourly