Quilty Space, formerly known as Quilty Analytics, is a U.S.-based financial research, investment banking, and strategic advisory firm established in 2016 and headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. They provide financial, technical, and strategic insight to help businesses make informed decisions in the satellite and space sector. The firm offers services to companies, institutional investors, private equity firms, and venture capitalists. Quilty Space delivers business intelligence through insightful reports, financial analysis, and industry updates.
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Quilty Space’s March 2026 forecast put Starlink’s 2025 revenue at $10 billion to $12 billion across consumer and enterprise segments.
Quilty Space estimated that New Glenn is unlikely to fly for three to six months while Blue Origin performs root cause analysis and remediation.
Quilty Space chief executive Chris Quilty said AST SpaceMobile’s satellites are manufactured on a production line.
Quilty Space covers broadband constellations, defense procurement, optical communications, mergers and acquisitions activity, and launch economics.
Quilty Space published a 2022 report on optical intersatellite links that shaped industry understanding of OISL adoption as LEO constellations scaled.
Quilty Space evolved from Quilty Analytics into a satellite market intelligence firm.
In late 2021, Quilty Space published research arguing that the Department of Defense’s pivot to LEO smallsats would become a major growth driver for commercial satellite companies.
Chris Quilty is Co-CEO and President of Quilty Space.
In September 2025, Quilty Space projected that Starlink would generate $15.9 billion in revenue and $11 billion in EBITDA for 2026.
SpaceX filed a confidential initial public offering six months after Quilty Space published its 2025 Starlink projection.
Quilty Space and Bloomberg project Starlink revenues between $15.9 billion and $24 billion for 2026.
Analysts participating in the Via Satellite roundtable include Tim Farrar of TMF Associates, Antoine Grenier of Analysys Mason, Kimberly Siversen Burke of Quilty Space, and Armand Musey of Summit Ridge Group.
Chris Quilty is the co-CEO at Quilty Space and moderated a panel on the Golden Dome system.
Chris Quilty, Co-CEO of Quilty Space, delivered a keynote at Silicon Valley Space Week's MilSat Symposium on October 30.
Quilty Space estimates that the Starlink V2 mini satellite costs around $800,000.
As of the first half of 2023, Quilty Space's market monitor recorded 64 venture space equity financings, more than half of which related to the smallsat ecosystem.
According to Quilty Space’s mid-2023 satellite demand analysis, there will be approximately 370 smallsats weighing 500 kilograms or less launched in 2024, excluding China and Russia.