| Operator | Growth status | Deployment phase |
|---|---|---|
| Starlink | Expansion | Ramp-up · v2 mini |
| Amazon Kuiper | Expansion | Initial deployment |
| OneWeb | Stable | Generation 1 complete |
| Eutelsat | Consolidation | Hybrid GEO + LEO |
Space is not 20 disconnected categories. It is a single chain — infrastructure becoming essential to the global economy.
Who is building the orbital network — and how fast it is growing.
How more capacity gets deployed, and what cadence reveals about what comes next.
How this infrastructure reaches the real world — the bridge to the terrestrial economy.
Not statistics — interpretation. What the signals mean, who benefits, and what could shift.
The players that make up the space economy — operators, constellations, and launch providers tracked by Alcyone.
| # | Operator | Category | Active satellites | Status |
|---|
A dated, citable reading of the space economy, published each week.
The Alcyone Space Economy Index is a synthetic 0–100 reading of the state of the global space economy at a given point in time. It aggregates four market dimensions into a single composite figure.
| Component | Weight | What it reflects |
|---|---|---|
| Connectivity | 30% | Market adoption and connectivity signals |
| Infrastructure | 30% | Constellation deployment status and infrastructure signals |
| Launch Activity | 20% | Launch provider status and positive market signals |
| Market Momentum | 20% | New entrants and competitive intensity |
Global Index = 0.30 × Connectivity + 0.30 × Infrastructure + 0.20 × Launch + 0.20 × Market Momentum.
Each component carries two distinct readings:
Score — the current structural state (how strong the dimension is).
Momentum — the rate of change over time (how fast it is moving), computed only from real historical observations. Momentum is never folded into the Score.
Component inputs draw on public data — Space-Track (active satellite counts per constellation), Launch Library 2 / The Space Devs (launch cadence) — combined with structured expert assessment of operator and market status.
Each dynamic metric carries a confidence level (High / Medium / Low) reflecting data coverage — how many operators or sources contribute to the reading.
Historical values are never backfilled or retro-calculated.
Momentum requires at least two real observations; otherwise it is reported as Baseline — never zero, never estimated, never invented.
No data → no score. No history → no momentum claim. No source → no metric.
Methodology v1.0 · Initial production methodology · launched September 2026. Weights and sources are published; substantive changes will be versioned (v1.1, v2.0…).
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