PARIS – Defense and security applications provided almost half of the revenue generated by Earth-observation satellites in 2024, Novaspace principal Annekatrien Debien said at the Summit on Earth Observation Business.

While commercial and civil demand for satellite data continues to expand, “the main catalyst remains rising geopolitical tension, which has revealed the strategic importance of space-based capabilities in securing national sovereignty and ensuring strategic autonomy,” Debien said Sept. 18. “As a result, those missions are expected to dominate the market in terms of value,” accounting for 54% of the total revenue from 2025 to 2034.

Over the next decade, Novaspace anticipates rising demand for Earth-observation imagery with a resolution of 30 to 50 centimeters per pixel or ev

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