in all three main bands - C, Ku and Ka - with downturn”. Industry analysts remain virtually united in maintaining their growth forecasts, and continue to forecast a consistent 7-8% annual growth despite the economic downturn and before any stimulus funds are taken into account (Insight 13). Eurocon-sult growing operation in the Ka bands, which are gener-ally used for broadband applications. Analysis of the satellite network coordination request submissions over the last two years confi rms growth in the future of FSS applications in all three main bands, with most of these networks being brought into use over 2012-2015. forecasts that the commercial satellite market will grow by over one third with 235 satellites to be launched over 2009-2018 with a market value of US$ 52 billion (Insight 14). In addition to notifi cations of new satellite networks, another indicator of the dynamism of the satellite in-dustry Even before stimulus funding has been disbursed, growth in demand for broadband and Fixed-Satellite Service (FSS) is confi rmed by the latest ITU data. According to data maintained by ITU’s Radiocom-munication is the updating of the list of operating admin-istration/ agencies in operational control of the space stations (mandatory information to be provided with the satellite network fi ling submissions). More than twenty new operating agencies have been submitted to the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau over the last two years, underlining the strong growth in the industry (Insights 13 and 14). Bureau, the number of satellite network notifi cations by administrations has been increasing steadily over the last two years. Notifi cation submis-sions give an indication of the satellite networks brought into use, and they show strong FSS applica-tions 75