Commercial Space Industry Chain

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Panorama of the commercial space industry chain: upstream rockets, satellites and materials, midstream launch services and constellation operations, downstream satcom, navigation and Earth observation.

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Commercial Space Industry Chain: Upstream, Midstream & Downstream Structure

Panorama of the commercial space industry chain: upstream rockets, satellites and materials, midstream launch services and constellation operations, downstream satcom, navigation and Earth observation.

36 segments across 20 upstream, 7 midstream and 9 downstream nodes, broken down to 3 levels of depth, with 81 key company placements.

Upstream

  • Space Manufacturing(航天制造(上游))Sector — Rockets, satellites and their components and materials.

    • Launch Vehicles(运载火箭制造)System — Commercial launch vehicles; reusability and cost are the battleground.🔒4

      • Rocket Engines(火箭发动机)Component — Methalox, kerolox and solid motors; core of cost and reuse.🔒4

      • Structures & Tanks(箭体结构与贮箱)Component — Lightweight airframes, stages and propellant tanks.🔒3

      • Avionics & GNC(箭载电子与控制)Component — Flight computers, inertial navigation and telemetry.🔒2

      • Propellants(推进剂与特种气体)Material — LOX, methane, kerosene and pressurant gases.🔒2

      • Reusability(回收复用技术)Technology — Vertical landing and reuse, cutting launch cost by an order of magnitude.🔒3

    • Satellite Manufacturing(卫星制造)System — Mass production of LEO satellites; the factory model drives cost down.🔒4

      • Satellite Bus(卫星平台)Component — Bus systems: structure, power, propulsion and AOCS.🔒3

      • Payloads(有效载荷)Component — Transponders and phased arrays, the highest-value part of a satellite.🔒3

      • Satellite Antennas(星载天线)Component — Spaceborne phased-array and deployable antennas.🔒2

      • Inter-Satellite Laser Links(星间激光通信)Component — Inter-satellite laser terminals for constellation networking.🔒3

      • Attitude Control(姿轨控部件)Component — Star trackers, reaction wheels and electric propulsion.🔒2

    • Components & Materials(部组件与材料)Sector — Components and materials shared by rockets and satellites.

      • T/R Chips & Phased Arrays(TR芯片与相控阵)Chip — T/R chips at the heart of phased arrays, on satellites and terminals.🔒3

      • Carbon Fiber Composites(碳纤维复合材料)Material — Core lightweight material for structures.🔒3

      • Superalloys(高温合金)Material — Heat-resistant alloys for combustion chambers and turbopumps.🔒3

      • Aerospace Additive Manufacturing(航天3D打印)Manufacturing — 3D printing of complex engine parts, slashing development cycles.🔒2

      • Space-Grade Electronics(宇航连接器与电子)Component — Radiation-hardened connectors, relays and components.🔒3

      • Space Clocks(星载时频器件)Component — Space atomic clocks and oscillators, the timing reference.🔒1

Midstream

  • Launch & Operations(发射与运营(中游))Sector — Launch services, constellation operations and the ground segment.

    • Launch Services(发射服务)Service — Launch capacity, the biggest bottleneck of constellation build-out.🔒4

    • Commercial Launch Sites(商业发射场)Service — Commercial pads and infrastructure raising launch cadence.🔒1

    • Constellation Operations(卫星星座运营)Service — LEO constellation networking, operations and capacity wholesale.

      • Satellite Internet(卫星互联网星座)Service — LEO broadband; a race to deploy tens of thousands of satellites.🔒3

      • Earth Observation Constellations(遥感星座)Service — High-revisit Earth-observation constellations.🔒3

    • TT&C & Ground Segment(测控与地面系统)Service — Satellite TT&C, gateways and ground networks.🔒1

Downstream

  • Space Applications(航天应用(下游))Sector — Satcom, navigation and Earth-observation applications.

    • Satcom Applications(卫星通信应用)Sector — Consumer and enterprise satcom services and terminals.

      • Direct-to-Device(手机直连卫星)Service — Ordinary phones connecting to satellites, opening the consumer market.🔒4

      • User Terminals(卫星终端设备)Component — Flat-panel and on-the-move user terminals.🔒3

    • GNSS Applications(卫星导航应用)Sector — BeiDou-centered positioning, navigation and timing.

      • GNSS Chips & Modules(北斗芯片与模组)Chip — Navigation chips, modules and boards.🔒3

      • High-Precision Positioning(高精度定位服务)Service — Centimeter-level positioning for autonomous driving and surveying.🔒3

    • Earth Observation Applications(遥感应用)Service — EO data processing for agriculture, emergency response and land use.🔒3

    • Space Tourism & New Frontiers(太空旅游与新业态)Service — Suborbital tourism and commercial space stations.🔒3

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