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Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Space Traffic Management Market Research 2025-2034: AI and Machine Learning Revolutionizing the Industry, Autonomous Solutions Driving Growth
The Space Traffic Management Market is projected to grow from USD 15.9 billion in 2025 to USD 44.9 billion by 2034, driven by satellite expansion and collision avoidance needs. Key players like LeoLabs and Astroscale advance STM with AI, radar, and optical tracking. As space constellations rise, robust STM solutions are crucial for sustainable operations worldwide. Space Traffic Management Market Dublin, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Space Traffic Management Market 2025-2034" has been added to offering. The Space Traffic Management (STM) market, valued at USD 15.9 billion in 2025, is projected to grow at a CAGR of 12.2%, reaching USD 44.9 billion by 2034. As the space industry expands, managing the movement of objects in space has emerged as essential, driven by increased satellite deployments and emerging space exploration missions. STM encompasses tracking and managing satellites, avoiding collisions, and addressing space debris challenges. The rise of satellite constellations for internet service, Earth observation, and scientific pursuits amplifies the need for sophisticated systems and technologies that can efficiently monitor space activity, minimizing congestion in low Earth orbit (LEO) and beyond. The push for lunar and Mars expeditions further demands enhanced traffic management solutions to ensure safe and sustainable space activities. The market saw significant advancements in 2024, fueled by collaborative efforts from government entities and private companies such as LeoLabs and Astroscale. These organizations pioneered sophisticated radar and optical technologies for real-time space tracking and collision avoidance. Concurrently, the U.S. Department of Defense and other global space agencies are working towards cohesive data-sharing protocols and collision avoidance standards. The deployment of satellite constellations, notably SpaceX's Starlink, underscores the pressing demand for robust STM systems. The market's evolution saw the introduction of autonomous collision avoidance systems, enabling real-time satellite maneuvering decisions. Moreover, debris mitigation technologies have gained traction, fostering a more sustainable space environment through proactive removal efforts. A multi-stakeholder approach is fostering the creation of regulatory frameworks to manage space traffic effectively. Looking towards 2025 and beyond, STM is expected to thrive due to increasing satellite launches, expansion of satellite networks, and heightened awareness of space debris dangers. Autonomous STM systems, integrated with AI and machine learning, are anticipated to dominate, enhancing real-time decision-making and data-driven analytics in orbit management. With planned human ventures to the Moon and Mars, STM's role will be crucial in managing landings and operations in these regions. International cooperation remains vital to address global STM challenges, focusing on standardized regulations and protocols. The rise of commercial space operations necessitates STM's incorporation into mission planning for sustainable space activities. However, challenges such as integration of diverse systems, regulations, and stakeholder interests persist, necessitating a cohesive global STM strategy. Space Traffic Management Market Analytics The research details various forces impacting the STM market supply and demand. The analysis covers direct and indirect market impacts, providing a comprehensive view of the supply chain and evaluating alternatives. Geopolitical changes, demographic factors, and a Porter's Five Forces analysis help in crafting robust STM projections. Recent transactions and developments are analyzed for their potential market impact. Metrics like Threat of New Entrants, Threat of Substitutes, Degree of Competition, Number of Suppliers, and entry barriers provide insights into market conditions. Trade and price analysis further elucidate the international STM market, helping clients with procurement, vendor-client relationships, and price trend exploration. Competitive Intelligence Company revenue and product analysis reveal the STM market structure and competition. Key player profiles, covering business descriptions, portfolios, SWOT analysis, financials, and strategic endeavors, are highlighted. New product launches, investments, mergers, and partnerships keep clients informed and competitive. The analysis showcases different strategic offerings in regions like Asia-Pacific, Europe, and others, aiding in strategic planning and market share improvement. Key Insights in the Space Traffic Management Market Integration of AI and machine learning into STM systems for enhanced real-time decision-making and collision avoidance. Growing demand for autonomous STM solutions enabling real-time satellite operations without human intervention. Development of advanced radar and optical technologies for improved real-time monitoring and collision prediction. Joint efforts by government agencies and private entities to harmonize STM data-sharing and protocol standards. Deployment of space debris removal technologies, including robotic systems and ion-powered propulsion, for debris management. Expansion of satellite constellations, particularly for broadband internet, fueling comprehensive STM systems' necessity. Surge in awareness and concern over space debris risks, fostering demand for STM solutions focused on collision and debris mitigation. Technological advancements in tracking systems and autonomous decision-making, enhancing STM accuracy and efficiency. Collaborative initiatives to establish global STM standards and regulations for safe and sustainable space operations. Challenges in aligning fragmented regulations and practices among spacefaring nations and companies to form a unified global STM framework. Your Takeaways from this Report Global STM market size and growth projections (CAGR), 2024-2034. The impact of geopolitical, economic, and trade policies on STM supply and demand. STM market size, share, and outlook across five regions and 27 countries, 2025-2034. Space Traffic Management market size, CAGR, and share of key products and applications, 2025-2034. Short and long-term market trends, drivers, restraints, and opportunities. Porter's Five Forces analysis and technological developments in STM. STM market trade and price analysis, along with value chain insights. Profiles of five leading industry companies - overview, strategies, financials, and products. The latest STM market news and advancements. Key Attributes: Report Attribute Details No. of Pages 150 Forecast Period 2025 - 2034 Estimated Market Value (USD) in 2025 $15.9 Billion Forecasted Market Value (USD) by 2034 $44.9 Billion Compound Annual Growth Rate 12.2% Regions Covered Global Companies Featured General Mills Inc. The Kraft Heinz Company Campbell Soup Company Unilever PLC Baxters Food Group Limited Blount Fine Foods Corp. Loblaw Companies Limited B&G Foods Inc. Conagra Brands Inc. Hain Celestial Group Inc. Kettle Cuisine LLC Knorr Foods Co Ltd. Nissin Foods Holdings Co Ltd. Pacific Foods of Oregon LLC Premier Foods Group Ltd. Progresso Foods Inc. The Original Soupman Inc. The Real Soup Company Limited Trader Joe's Company Amy's Kitchen Inc. Bear Creek Country Kitchens Inc. Dr. McDougall's Right Foods Inc. Imagine Foods Inc. Kewpie Corporation Maruchan Inc. Nongshim Co Ltd. Ottogi Co Ltd. Sapporo Holdings Ltd. Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd. Wei Chuan Foods Corporation Market Segmentation By Activity: Space Debris Remediation Space Orbit Management Launch Vehicle Operation By Orbit: MEO and Elliptical GEO By Application: Earth Observation Navigation Global Positioning System and Surveillance Technology Development and Education Other Applications By End-Use: Commercial Military For more information about this report visit About is the world's leading source for international market research reports and market data. We provide you with the latest data on international and regional markets, key industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. 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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Space Force eyes commercial tech to fill low Earth orbit sensing gaps
The Space Force recently launched a survey of the commercial marketplace for companies that can track and characterize activities in low Earth orbit. As more commercial and government satellites launch to LEO, the service has a growing need for visibility in the domain, which resides about 1,200 miles above the Earth's surface. In a May 16 notice, the service calls for information from firms that can provide space domain awareness in the 'increasingly congested orbital environment.' Specifically, the service wants these systems to provide better insight into 'objects of interest' and real-time assessment of potential conjunctions. It also wants data that can be used to quickly investigate anomalies in LEO to understand if measures need to be taken to protect U.S. space assets. 'The goal is to identify commercial vendors offering sensors as a service, today or in the future, with a capability for individual sensor tasking directly from a pre-existing U.S. government mission application layer,' the service said. 'The government is particularly interested in solutions that prioritize data quality, verification, and traceability to ensure the reliability of information used in time-critical decision-making processes.' The mission application layer referenced in the notice is a software capability that provides information about the environment to inform military operators as they direct and task commercial sensors. The call for LEO-based space domain awareness follows a similar push from the Space Force to identify commercial capabilities in geosynchronous orbit, known as GEO, which sits at a higher altitude than LEO and is where many of the service's high-value systems reside. In early 2024, the service sought input from private sector firms on whether their GEO sensing systems could augment the existing government-owned satellites that make up its Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, or GSSAP constellation. That market research led the service to craft an acquisition plan for a commercial GEO-based space domain awareness architecture. The service approved the initial plan in late April and is now fleshing out a more detailed strategy, including how to make the system available at an unclassified level to U.S. allies. The Space Force has several ongoing initiatives to leverage the growing marketplace of LEO-based services. In 2023, it selected a pool of 16 vendors to provide a range of services as part of its Proliferated Low Earth Orbit program. The contract initially had a ceiling of $900 million but has since grown to $13 billion in response to demand from military users. In the space domain awareness area, a number of startups — including ExoAnalytic Solutions, LeoLabs and Slingshot Aerospace — are offering a range of capabilities, from AI tracking tools to mobile, ground-based radars. The May 16 notice doesn't state preference for either space-based or ground-based systems, but it notes that the service has a particular need for more positional data as well as electro-optical and active and passive radio frequency observations.
Sydney Morning Herald
08-05-2025
- Science
- Sydney Morning Herald
A Soviet space probe will crash back to Earth. It could land in Australia
'I'm not worried – I'm not telling all my friends to go to the basement for this,' said Darren McKnight, senior technical fellow at LeoLabs, a company that tracks objects in orbit and monitors Kosmos-482 six times a day. 'Usually about once a week we have a large object reenter Earth's atmosphere where some remnants of it will survive to the ground.' When will Kosmos-482 come back to Earth? Estimates change daily, but the predicted days of re-entry are currently this weekend. One calculation of the window by The Aerospace Corp, a US-government supported non-profit that tracks space debris, suggests 1:37pm Saturday AEST – plus or minus 16 hours. Marco Langbroek, a scientist and satellite tracker at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands who has tracked Kosmos-482 for years, puts the estimate closer to 5:51pm AEST, plus or minus about 20 hours. Where will it land? No one knows. 'And we won't know until after the fact,' McDowell said. That's because Kosmos-482 is hurtling through space at more than 27,000km/h, and it will be going that fast until atmospheric friction pumps the brakes. So getting the timing wrong by even a half-hour means the spacecraft will re-enter more than half a world away, in a different spot. What's known is that Kosmos-482's orbit places it between 52 degrees north latitude and 52 degrees south latitude, which covers Africa, Australia, most of the Americas and much of south- and mid-latitude Europe and Asia. 'There are three things that can happen when something reenters: a splash, a thud or an ouch,' McKnight said. 'A splash is really good,' he said, and may be most likely because so much of Earth is covered in oceans. He said the hope was to avoid the 'thud' or the 'ouch'. Will the spacecraft survive impact? Assuming Kosmos-482 survives re-entry – and it should, as long as its heat shield is intact – the spacecraft will be going about 240km/h when it smashes into whatever it smashes into, Langbroek calculated. 'I don't think there's going to be a lot left afterward,' McDowell said. 'Imagine putting your car into a wall at 150 miles an hour [241km/h] and seeing how much of it is left.' The heat of re-entry should make Kosmos-482 visible as a bright streak through the sky if its return occurs over a populated area at night. If pieces of the spacecraft survive and are recovered, they legally belong to Russia. 'Under the law, if you find something, you have an obligation to return it,' said Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Centre for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. 'Russia is considered to be the registered owner and therefore continues to have jurisdiction and control over the object.' How do we know the identity of this object? Some 25 years ago, McDowell was going through the North American Aerospace Defence Command's catalogue of about 25,000 orbital objects and trying to pin an identity on each. 'Most of them, the answer is, 'Well, this is a piece of exploded rocket from something fairly boring',' he recalls. Loading But one of them, object 6073, was a bit odd. Launched in 1972 from Kazakhstan, it ended up in a highly elliptical orbit, travelling between 200 and 10,000 kilometres from Earth. As he studied its orbit and size, McDowell surmised it must be the wayward Kosmos-482 lander – not just a piece of debris from the failed launch. The conclusion was supported by observations from the ground, as well as a recently declassified Soviet document.
The Age
08-05-2025
- Science
- The Age
A Soviet space probe will crash back to Earth. It could land in Australia
'I'm not worried – I'm not telling all my friends to go to the basement for this,' said Darren McKnight, senior technical fellow at LeoLabs, a company that tracks objects in orbit and monitors Kosmos-482 six times a day. 'Usually about once a week we have a large object reenter Earth's atmosphere where some remnants of it will survive to the ground.' When will Kosmos-482 come back to Earth? Estimates change daily, but the predicted days of re-entry are currently this weekend. One calculation of the window by The Aerospace Corp, a US-government supported non-profit that tracks space debris, suggests 1:37pm Saturday AEST – plus or minus 16 hours. Marco Langbroek, a scientist and satellite tracker at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands who has tracked Kosmos-482 for years, puts the estimate closer to 5:51pm AEST, plus or minus about 20 hours. Where will it land? No one knows. 'And we won't know until after the fact,' McDowell said. That's because Kosmos-482 is hurtling through space at more than 27,000km/h, and it will be going that fast until atmospheric friction pumps the brakes. So getting the timing wrong by even a half-hour means the spacecraft will re-enter more than half a world away, in a different spot. What's known is that Kosmos-482's orbit places it between 52 degrees north latitude and 52 degrees south latitude, which covers Africa, Australia, most of the Americas and much of south- and mid-latitude Europe and Asia. 'There are three things that can happen when something reenters: a splash, a thud or an ouch,' McKnight said. 'A splash is really good,' he said, and may be most likely because so much of Earth is covered in oceans. He said the hope was to avoid the 'thud' or the 'ouch'. Will the spacecraft survive impact? Assuming Kosmos-482 survives re-entry – and it should, as long as its heat shield is intact – the spacecraft will be going about 240km/h when it smashes into whatever it smashes into, Langbroek calculated. 'I don't think there's going to be a lot left afterward,' McDowell said. 'Imagine putting your car into a wall at 150 miles an hour [241km/h] and seeing how much of it is left.' The heat of re-entry should make Kosmos-482 visible as a bright streak through the sky if its return occurs over a populated area at night. If pieces of the spacecraft survive and are recovered, they legally belong to Russia. 'Under the law, if you find something, you have an obligation to return it,' said Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Centre for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi. 'Russia is considered to be the registered owner and therefore continues to have jurisdiction and control over the object.' How do we know the identity of this object? Some 25 years ago, McDowell was going through the North American Aerospace Defence Command's catalogue of about 25,000 orbital objects and trying to pin an identity on each. 'Most of them, the answer is, 'Well, this is a piece of exploded rocket from something fairly boring',' he recalls. Loading But one of them, object 6073, was a bit odd. Launched in 1972 from Kazakhstan, it ended up in a highly elliptical orbit, travelling between 200 and 10,000 kilometres from Earth. As he studied its orbit and size, McDowell surmised it must be the wayward Kosmos-482 lander – not just a piece of debris from the failed launch. The conclusion was supported by observations from the ground, as well as a recently declassified Soviet document.
New York Post
29-04-2025
- Science
- New York Post
Russian satellite linked to nuclear weapons program is spinning out of control
A secret Russian satellite that US officials believe is linked to Russia's nuclear weapons program appears to be spinning uncontrollably in space, in a major blow for Moscow, according to American analysts. The Cosmos 2553 satellite, which was launched by Russia weeks before invading Ukraine in 2022, has been tumbling in space for the past year, suggesting it may no longer be functioning, according to Doppler radar data from space-tracking firm LeoLabs and optical data from Slingshot Aerospace. The Cosmos was at the center of allegations from the US that Russia was developing a nuclear weapon capable of destroying entire satellite networks in space, including SpaceX's Starlink system that Ukrainian troops have relied on to fight Moscow's invasion. Advertisement The US has accused Russia of launching secret satellites aimed at building a nuclear weapon capable of eliminating entire satellite systems in space. REUTERS LeoLabs, which detected errant movements from the satellite last year, now has 'high confidence' that the Cosmos is spinning out of control, Darren McKnight, a senior technical fellow at the company, told Reuters. The satellite was notably flying in a relatively isolated orbit some 1,200 miles above the Earth in a known hotspot of cosmic radiation that normal satellites typically avoid. Advertisement The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, said the findings from LeoLabs show clear evidence that the Russian satellite 'is no longer operational.' Slingshot, however, said that the Cosmos appears to have recently stabilized after the company first detected the tumbling pattern last May. Satellites have become key to Russia, America and China's space programs for military and intelligence operations. dimazel – Russia's Ministry of Defense, which denied allegations that Cosmos was linked to its nuclear weapons program, has yet to comment on the findings from the American analysts. Advertisement US Space Command, which condemned the launch of Russia's military satellites, has also remained silent on the findings. Although not a weapon itself, Cosmos 2553 was believed to aid Russia's development of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon. The Cosmos is one of dozens of Russia's military satellites, with Moscow investing billions in strengthening its space capabilities for military and intelligence purposes as the war with Ukraine continues. Advertisement Washington and Beijing have also followed suit to bolster their own secretive satellite programs, raising concerns about a future where space conflicts and satellite attacks become the norm. The Biden administration warned last year that the Cosmos was just the start of Moscow's ambitions, with Russia allegedly 'considering the incorporation of nuclear weapons into its counterspace programs.' With Post wires
