Stefanos Fasoulas

Peter Roberts

David Gonzalez

Kate Smith

Francesco Romano

Daniel García-Almiñana

Claire Huyton

Leonardo Ghizoni

C. Traub

Steve Edmondson

Vitor Toshiyuki Abrao Oiko

Luciana Sinpetru

Dhiren Kataria

Nicholas Crisp

Y. Chan

R. M. Dominguez

Silvia Rodriguez-Donaire

Rachel Villain

B. Belkouchi

J. Becedas

Kristian Bay

Jonas Morsbøl

M. Sureda

Rachel Lyons

B. Heißerer

R. Outlaw

Sabrina Livadiotti

J. S. Perez

A. Schwalber

Alexis Conte

Victor Jungnell

Georg Herdrich

Adam Boxberger

Sarah J. Haigh

Stephen D. Worral

After decades of traditional space businesses, the space paradigm is changing. New approaches to more efficient missions in terms of costs, design, and manufacturing processes are fostered. For instance, placing big constellations of micro- and nano-satellites in Low Earth Orbit and Very Low Earth Orbit (LEO and VLEO) enables the space community to obtain a huge amount of data in near real-time with an unprecedented temporal resolution. Beyond technology innovations, other drivers promote innovation in the space sector like the increasing demand for Earth Observation (EO) data by the commercial sector. Perez et al. stated that the EO industry is the second market in terms of operative satellites (661 units), micro- and nano-satellites being the higher share of them (61%). Technological and market drivers encourage the emergence of new start-ups in the space environment like Skybox, OneWeb, Telesat, Planet, and OpenCosmos, among others, with novel business models that change the accessibility, affordability, ownership, and commercialization of space products and services. This chapter shows some results of the H2020 DISCOVERER (DISruptive teChnOlogies for VERy low Earth oRbit platforms) Project and focuses on understanding how micro- and nano-satellites have been disrupting the EO market in front of traditional platforms.

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