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Market Insight: 2022 NanoSats applications breakdown

Out of the 322* NanoSats launched in 2022 in the world, the most important share of them was launched for System Design and Verification purposes.

This indicates we can expect many new satellites projects in upcoming years! These figures also confirm the pertinence of such small satellites for IOD/IOV missions.

Telecommunications, Earth Observation and Radio Frequency payloads were the 3 other kinds mostly sent to space last year on NanoSats. For a complete breakdown se number below:

System design and Verification - 76

Telecommunication - 73

Earth Observation - 53

RF payload and systems - 50

Flight Dynamics Position Navigation and timing (PNT)- 12

Meteorology - 10

Science/roboticexploration - 9

Optoelectronics/Optics/photonics- 8

In-space propulsiontechnology - 5

Space environmentand effects - 5

Inspacemultidisciplinary research and development - 5

Upper atmosphere - 3

Emergent and futuredomain - 3

Solar andinterplanetary physics - 2

Structures andMechanisms - 2

Space Debris - 2

Atmospheric entry -1

Hi Energy andParticle Astronomy - 1

Science Instrumentsand sensor systems - 1

Protection ofassests in and from space - 1

(source of Data: Nanosats Database) 

* Please note we removed satellites with failed/uncertain launch from this breakdown

Out of the 322* NanoSats launched in 2022 in the world, the most important share of them was launched for System Design and Verification purposes.

This indicates we can expect many new satellites projects in upcoming years! These figures also confirm the pertinence of such small satellites for IOD/IOV missions.

Telecommunications, Earth Observation and Radio Frequency payloads were the 3 other kinds mostly sent to space last year on NanoSats. For a complete breakdown se number below:

System design and Verification - 76

Telecommunication - 73

Earth Observation - 53

RF payload and systems - 50

Flight Dynamics Position Navigation and timing (PNT)- 12

Meteorology - 10

Science/roboticexploration - 9

Optoelectronics/Optics/photonics- 8

In-space propulsiontechnology - 5

Space environmentand effects - 5

Inspacemultidisciplinary research and development - 5

Upper atmosphere - 3

Emergent and futuredomain - 3

Solar andinterplanetary physics - 2

Structures andMechanisms - 2

Space Debris - 2

Atmospheric entry -1

Hi Energy andParticle Astronomy - 1

Science Instrumentsand sensor systems - 1

Protection ofassests in and from space - 1

(source of Data: Nanosats Database) 

* Please note we removed satellites with failed/uncertain launch from this breakdown