Teal predict over 2,200 payloads to be launched over next 20 years

The Teal Group – a defense and aerospace consulting firm that provides intelligence to government and industry – estimates 2,229 space payloads will be launched to Earth, Lunar and deep space trajectories from 2010-2029. The Virginia-based group is also predicting a bright future for SpaceX’s Dragon, and Orbital’s Cygnus capsules, as they prepare to come on line to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
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The Teal Group Corp revised its Worldwide Mission Model of future space payloads upwards from its previous prediction by 10 percent, a figure that includes additional GEO (geostationary) communication satellites, nanosatellites and picosatellites.
“Our payload count for the next 20 years is nearly 10 percent higher than it was a year ago,” said Marco Caceres, lead analyst for Teal Group’s World Space Systems Briefing which features the Mission Model. “In our previous study, we identified 2,033 payloads worldwide.
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“During the past year, we have included more than two dozen additional commercial geostationary communications satellites that have been ordered or planned by companies such as Intelsat and SES Global. We have also added dozens of nanosatellites and picosatellites for commercial systems such as ...