[Satellite TODAY 03-31-10] Analyst firm Teal Group Corp. has increased its yearly projected count of future space payloads over the next 20 years from 2010 to 2029, Teal Group Lead Analyst Marco Caceres announced March 30.
    “In our previous study, we identified 2,033 payloads worldwide.  During the past year, we have included more than two dozen additional commercial geostationary communications satellites that have been ordered or planned by companies such as Intelsat and SES Global. We have also added dozens of nanosatellites and picosatellites for commercial systems such as GeoOptics’ Cicero and for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office,” Caceres said in a statement.
    Teal Group’s Mission Model aims to serve as a gauge of the payloads that are being proposed to be built or may be required in order to replenish systems that are currently in orbit, provides a base from which to forecast those satellites, probes, capsules and manned missions that are most likely to be completed and launched.
    Civil and commercial payloads account nearly equally for 77 percent of the total payloads in the Mission Model, while military and university payloads account for 19 percent and 4 percent, respectively, Caceres wrote.