An overview of several proposed evaluation models to compare satellite manufacturers from the perspective of satellite operators

One of the most important factors in creating competition in future generations of satellite communications is to have a proper satellite system. For this reason, it is necessary for satellite operators to have a suitable choice among different satellite manufacturers, taking into account technical and economic considerations. Therefore, the necessary to select a manufacturer from among the existing manufacturers in this field is a serious challenge. In this paper, we review several methods and compare the evaluation criteria of satellite manufacturers based on the methods of MAXI MAX, Lexicography, non-compensatory decision making and compensatory decision making, which will be a booklet of common mathematical algorithms to compare parameters in a target problem. Finally, a more comprehensive and complete method than previous works has been presented based creating a cross-evaluation matrix according to the main- criteria and side-criteria to evaluate the satellite manufacturers by the satellite operator. In this paper, for better and more efficient selection, nine main criteria and twenty-six sidecriteria according to the type of service and favor of satellite communications are presented in order to evaluate and select among satellite manufacturers and compare with previous works.