Space Economy Watch: providing members with data-driven insights and analysis on market trends.
Eurospace maintains a consistent and organised watch on space systems markets at global level, with an added focus on the European side, to support industry cohesion and advocacy efforts with relevant data and analytical tools.As a principle, Eurospace gathers information from primary sources.
Eurospace maintains an organised watch on:
These quantitative tools are complemented by collecting and analysing relevant articles, publications and reports available to us through a variety of sources.
The wide reach of Eurospace space economy watch is also put at the service of focused research topics, at the request of our members, such as the recent deep dive on profit levels in the space industry, and in-depth analysis (and financial modelisation) of SpaceX.
This knowledge base supports the production of ad hoc analysis to promote the good understanding of space systems markets and dynamics at European and global levels within our members and European institutions.
Eurospace organises several webinars for members, to share the findings of our research. These webinars can be tailored to specific subjects (commercial constellations, small satellites, regional deep dives etc.).
We also publish two recurrent annual reports:
Eurospace executive maintains a budget watch, taking advantage of a variety of formal and informal sources and in-depth understanding of budgetary processes in Europe. This budget watch enables the executive to perform an annual consolidation of European space budgets (bringing together the national, EU, ESA and Eumetsat budget in a consistent way, as well as an in-depth analysis of the ESA budget (detailing contributions by source and outputs by programme).
Pioneered by Eurospace this analysis identifies budget sources and by management entity and consolidates them with accuracy to measure the actual budget available for space programmes in Europe. The main focus is the funding available for upstream space activities.
The LEAT database aims to track orbital launch activity. The main observation point is the launch site, and the launch date is the main calendar input. In other words, LEAT tracks all orbital launch attempts at the date they are performed. The underlying idea behind LEAT is to create a reference body of information to assess historic trends and estimate space infrastructure markets around their two main components: the spacecraft system and the launch system and service.
The database is thus built with quantitative analysis in mind, it is not an encyclopaedia. It aims to characterize and identify as truthfully as possible macroscopic trends in space activity. It includes a parametric economic model that enables to derive global market value estimates for spacecraft and launch services.
The annual Global Space Context report is published every year to provide an updated broad historic perspective on space activity worldwide.
The LEAT (Launch Events Analysis Tool) database is complete with launch events since 1957, and provides independent assessment of space market metrics. The database tracks every satellite launched, with information on the launcher used (including technical details) and on the payloads launched, focusing on mission aspects, and customer/manufacturer aspects.
The LEAT database is a key reference for international comparisons and the building of political messages. It enabled in particular, the elaboration of key messages such as:
For each launch event and spacecraft listed in the database the following information is available
Since 2014, Eurospace has developed an informal observatory of the “New Space” (or newspace) phenomenon. This analytical work is supported by an effort to characterise the New Space in a consistent way, and by an effort to track New space ‘relevant’ companies. This effort has enabled Eurospace to extend its knowledge of the European space sector and to open the facts and figures survey to new players of significance. The analytical and factual approach also serves to support independent understanding of the actual economic impact of the New Space in Europe (and abroad).