Study of the future perspectives of micro and nano-satellite constellations in the Earth Observation market

The principal aim of this thesis is to study through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the future perspectives of the Micro/Nanosatellitesconstellations in the Earth observation market. The objective of doing the qualitative analysis is to identify and study in detailseveral companies that are designing commercial Micro/Nano-satellite constellation to fulfil the needs of the Earth Observation market in order to have an overall perspective of where the sector is going. Once the qualitative analysis has been made and the main interesting parameters of micro/nanosatellite constellation are found, we will run the quantitative analysis. With the performance of this analysis,we are able to determine if the expectations of the companiesof the performance of the constellations are realistic or not. To determine the feasibility of theseparameters, they will be compared with the resultsobtained by implementing a specific case in the SaVi software