Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted…
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Space-based ADS-B became operational in 2019 with Aireon using Iridium NEXT’s 66 low Earth orbit satellites at about 780 km, each carrying an ADS-B receiver listening at 1090 MHz and delivering data to ground stations with latency under 1.5 seconds and updates often in the 2–5 second range. Before 2019 only about 30% of the…
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The global high-resolution SAR imaging market was about $5.4 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach about $11.6 billion by 2030, a CAGR of roughly 13%. Capella Space had around 10–15 satellites in 2024 delivering 0.5 m and 0.25 m resolution imagery, while ICEYE operates the world’s largest SAR constellation with 20+ satellites. Recent…
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The market is projected to grow from $14.44 billion in 2025 to $55.17 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 21.1%. In 2025, agriculture accounts for about 40% of revenue, while government and military end-users account for about 46.8%. North America leads with about 44–45% of global market share in 2025, while Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing…
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By September 2023, 71% of Finnish households had gigabit fixed broadband (1 Gbps) and 78% had 100 Mbps+ speeds, driven by 61% fiber access by end-2023. Finland aims for every household to have at least 100 Mbps connectivity (upgradeable to 1 Gbps) by 2025, with a national plan to reach full 1 Gbps nationwide by…
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The global QKD market (including terrestrial and satellite) is projected to grow from about $0.48 billion in 2024 to $2.63 billion by 2030, a CAGR of roughly 32.6%. Space-based QKD is forecast to reach about $1.1 billion by 2030, representing roughly 40–45% of the total QKD market. China’s Micius satellite, launched in 2016, demonstrated QKD…
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QUICK³ is a 3U CubeSat weighing 4 kg, led by Germany’s Technical University of Munich, and it launched on 23 June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter‑14 from Vandenberg SFB. It carries the first true single-photon source flown, a laser-pumped hexagonal boron nitride chip on a 10 × 10 × 15 cm photonic chip. True single photons…
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On 23 June 2025 at 07:18 UTC, the Falcon 9 lifted the QUICK³ nano-satellite into a 550 km sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base during SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare, with payload separation confirmed nine minutes after launch. The QUICK³ spacecraft weighs 4 kg and is a 3-U CubeSat (10 × 10 × 30 cm) with…
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Until 2017 Palau relied entirely on satellite internet, with only about 25% of the population online. In 2017 Palau lit its first fiber link by connecting a spur into the trans-Pacific SEA-US cable, known as Palau Cable 1, near Guam, financed by a $25 million Asian Development Bank loan. Palau Cable 2 is under construction…
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The global in-orbit servicing market is forecast to grow from about $2.4–$2.7 billion in the mid-2020s to roughly $8 billion by 2034, a CAGR of about 11–12%. Northrop Grumman SpaceLogistics’ Mission Extension Vehicle, MEV-1, docked to Intelsat-901 in 2020, restoring operations and extending life by more than 5 years. MEV-2 docked with IS-10-02 in 2021,…
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