The Annual Satellite Industry Indicators Survey

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The Annual Satellite Industry Indicators Survey

• Presented by
• Elaine Gresham

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Introduction

• Annual survey of the commercial space industry
  conducted by Futron Corporation for SIA
• The survey targets companies worldwide in four
  space industry segments
• Satellite manufacturing
• Launch industry
• Satellite services
• Ground equipment manufacturing
• Futron has conduced this survey for the last four
  years and it has been improved and expanded every
  year
• Over 900 companies received surveys in 2000/2001
• Survey measures size, in revenue and employment,
  and growth trends in the World and U.S. space
  industries

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Methodology and Approach

• Survey geared to gather employment, revenue, and
  other relevant information specific to each
  industry segment
• Futron augments survey responses with Futrons
  database of publicly available data to provide
  the complete industry picture
• Futron enters a NDA with respondents -- company
  level data is never released
• Revenues for manufacturing sectors are presented
  both excluding and including payments to
  subcontractors

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Benefits and Uses

• This data on the commercial space industry is
  unique because it is comprehensive, consistent,
  independent, and based on primary research
• The survey results are used by players in all
  segments of the industry
• Federal government
• Department of Commerce
• FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation
• The Federal Communications Commission
• The U.S. Census Bureau
• State governments California, Colorado,
  Florida, and Utah
• Media -- 19 different industry publications
  report the SIA/Futron statistics