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Selecting a launch vehicle : what factors do commercial satellite customers consider? : second quarter 2001 Quarterly Report Topic
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2001-01-01
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Abstract:Commercial satellite owners and operators clearly have the luxury of
choice when it comes to selecting a launch vehicle to transport their
assets into orbit. Whether the final destination is low-earth orbit (LEO), geostationary orbit (GEO), or somewhere in between, the world
supply of launchers able to deliver satellites to orbit has exceeded
demand each year for more than a decade. While established launch
companies in the United States, France, Russia, and China work to
introduce increasingly capable versions of their rockets, new players
such as Japan, India, and Israel development of their own launchers
with the hope of offering commercial services. While the wide assortment of launch vehicles available today affords satellite owners and operators numerous deployment options, this situation has created an extremely competitive business environment for launch companies worldwide. Indeed, the competitive market has had a major impact on U.S. share of commercial launches. Commanding about 50 percent of commercial launches during the mid-1990s, U.S. launch providers? share of the market now hovers around the 20 percent level.
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