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The Satellite Economy

Constellations are the new infrastructure

Thousands of satellites now deliver broadband, image the Earth daily, track ships and crops, and relay IoT signals from everywhere. Mass production — satellites built like consumer electronics — replaced the era of one-off, decade-long spacecraft programs.

Why it matters for your career

This is the largest employment pool in space: design, manufacture, operate, and sell the data. Software talent is as needed as aerospace engineers — a constellation is a distributed computing problem with rockets attached.

Roles in this area

Satellite softwareRF/payload engineerGround segmentGeospatial data science

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