You can tell a sector is healthy when it needs a laminated list of “top applications” to remind everyone why the money is still flowing. The “Top 20 Most Hyped Satellite Applications” graphic from New Space Economy (newspaceeconomy.ca) is that kind of reassurance. It looks like a market map. It behaves like a permission slip.
Start with broadband, because of course it starts with broadband. Nothing says “future” like rebuilding the internet with fleets of hardware you cannot easily service, parked in an environment full of debris, financed by a customer base that hates contracts and loves cancellations. The pitch leans on underserved communities, then casually slips in latency-sensitive finance because that is where the premium pricing lives. If you want to understand the real space economy, watch which use cases share a page with “algorithmic trading.”
