Flat Panel Satellite Antennas Represent an Opportunity: Report
The shipment of more than six million 6M flat panel satellite antennas will generate nearly $17 billion in equipment revenues over the next decade, according to a new report from Northern Sky Research. The growing Non-GEO High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Consumer Broadband market will yield nearly 5 million in shipments alone, driven by the growing number of HTS constellations expected over the next ten years.
“There is a lot of activity in the FPA market. Prices are being pushed down, and we’ve seen good improvements on antenna performance, but in the end, it will be one or the other. Several players are still looking for a spot in the FPA market. The biggest winners of the market will be the “can do it all multi-orbit, multi-frequency, multi-beam antenna.”
Charlotte Van Camp, NSR Analyst and report Co-Author.
“Near-term, COVID-19 continues to present supply-chain challenges across the equipment supplier landscape,” states Principal Analyst and Report Co-Author Brad Grady. “However, customer demand remains robust, with FPAs reaching upwards of 15% Satellite Terminal penetration by 2030 – up from basically 0% today.”
“There is a lot of activity in the FPA market,” said Charlotte Van Camp, NSR Analyst and report Co-Author. “Prices are being pushed down, and we’ve seen good improvements on antenna performance, but in the end, it will be one or the other. Several players are still looking for a spot in the FPA market. The biggest winners of the market will be the “can do it all multi-orbit, multi-frequency, multi-beam antenna.”
“Total Cost of Ownership is driving SATCOM markets. Increasingly, that means all the way down to the ground segment – and FPAs provide a highly flexible capability to leverage an increasingly complex space segment,” Grady said.
The bottom line, according to NSR, is that Commercial Mobility end-users will generate 60% of cumulative revenues. Consumer Broadband applications will unlock $1 billion in revenues for the manufacturers of flat panel satellite antennas. HTS architectures in GEO and Non-GEO account for nearly 99% of In-Service Units by 2030 (up from 30% in 2020), and GEO-HTS remains as the largest cumulative equipment revenue source – more than $10B by 2030.
NSR’s Flat Panel Satellite Antenna Analysis, 6th Edition report provides a 360-degree overview of the FPA market, forecasts the global industry growth in terms of shipped units, in-service units, and equipment revenues across nine regions and across five different types of services for both FSS and HTS.
(Source: Northern Sky Research news release)