Market Trends of Synthetic Aperture Radar Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Synthetic Aperture Radar Market according to our research experts:
Growing Demand of Synthetic Aperture Radar in Military and Defense Sector is Driving the Market
- In military applications, a synthetic aperture radar is used to detect surface features, like building complexes, missile sites, and topographical features of the surrounding terrain. Thus, it is used for battlefield surveillance, weapon guidance, and mission planning of future operations.
- The increased military and defense spending enables the defense sector to develop missiles with improved precision targeting. Compared to airborne SAR, missile-borne SAR has various essential characteristics, such as high flight speed with straight movement and a large squint angle, which are crucial in measuring precision in real-time.
- Further, Applications, such as weapons fire-control (missiles or guns) and accuracy control, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance missions, air, and spaceborne SAR systems, are expected to witness high adoption of ground-based systems.
- In addition, The United States Air Force used synthetic aperture radar for a bomb damage assessment at Nellis AFB in Nevada. During this test, weapons systems, including F-15Es, F-35s, F-16s, FA-18s, RQ-4, MQ-9, U-2, and joint partners, used SAR Mapping technology to assess the bombs that hit and destroy the intended targets.
- Also, In the defense sector, wide-area surveillance has diverse applications, such as monitoring remote areas for human movement, coast guard vessels, offshore missile platforms, and perimeter security. Technological developments have led to the increasing adoption of Unmanned Airborne Surveillance (UAS) systems or drones.
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North America Expected to Witness Significant Growth.
- The United States has one of the most significant national defense budgets and has proactively invested in research and development activities. The defense budget is increasing rapidly each year. For the fiscal year (FY) last year, the defense department proposed USD 715 billion for the Pentagon, an increase of about USD 10 billion. The budget proposal for Pentagon includes the largest-ever investment for research, development, and engineering for USD 112 billion.
- The increasing budgets reflect upon the growing research on the application of synthetic aperture radars in defense. Recently, the United States Air Force Research Laboratory officials at the Ohio base announced a USD 5.2 million contract to the BAE Systems Electronic Systems segment and a USD 4.1 million contract to the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory for the moving target recognition project (MTR).
- In the last year, Satellite designer and manufacturer Terran Orbital Corp. announced that it had received a USD 100 million investment from Lockheed Martin to allow the company to accelerate and expand its manufacturing capabilities.
- Also, the first satellite developed, licensed, and run by ICEYE US was among the fifteenth and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that ICEYE sent into orbit in January last year. Both satellites were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the SpaceX Transporter-3 smallsat rideshare mission with Exolaunch.
- Canada is also growing in terms of satellite imaging using SAR for research purposes. The country's space strategy prioritizes acquiring and using space-based data to support scientific excellence, innovation, and economic growth. For instance, MDA Ltd., a Canadian space technology company, recently announced designing and developing of Radarsat-2, the C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite. The firm is building the satellite in a public-private partnership with the Canadian government.
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