Fieldfisher Space Business Summit 2015 Debates Key Issues For Sector Growth

Fieldfisher's Space Business Summit 2015 brought together a full house of C level representatives from major space businesses to discuss growing and financing space business in Europe and worldwide. 

Growth prospects and challenges for the space sector

Among the highlights, a panel of distinguished speakers from ViaSat, Laser Light, Phasor, and Lunar Mission One debated the challenges and emerging opportunities for space businesses.  At a time of continued growth in High Throughput Satellites and an increasing wave of new global constellations, some commentators are asking whether the industry is in danger of over-capacity.

Against this background, the panellists unanimously concluded that super-saturation of capacity (and the resulting downward pressure on pricing) is not a substantial risk. In their view, the demand side pressures for increasing capacity across all forms of communications, especially for mobility applications, will require significant