Lab: Build NTN business case — coverage, capacity, TCO, revenue

Building an NTN Business Case

In this capstone lab, you will build a comprehensive NTN business case by modeling the complete economics of a satellite connectivity service. The exercise integrates constellation design choices with financial analysis, requiring you to balance coverage targets against capital investment, estimate capacity from orbital and beam parameters, project revenue across multiple market segments, and calculate total cost of ownership over a ten-year operational period. This mirrors the analysis process that satellite operators and investors use to evaluate constellation viability before committing…