FAA Projecting 42 Commercial Space Launches Annually Through 2027
Expect an average of 42 commercial space launches per year globally through 2027, said the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation in its 2018 Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation released Thursday. For 2018, it's predicting 52 launches carrying 369 payloads…
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-- 28 geostationary orbit (GSO) and 341 non-geostationary orbit (NGSO). It said the annual average of NGSO launches is expected to grow from averaging eight a year over the past 10 years to 27 annually. It expects on average 25 GSO satcom satellites to be launched annually over the next three years, up from the 20-satellite average of 2015-2017. It forecasts an average of 6.4 NGSO satcom satellite launches annually through 2027, with the OneWeb and Iridium Next constellations dominating that traffic.