I am writing about the intangible, unmeasurable, services that we offer to the world, such as the satellites that are enabling the entire world to communicate instantaneously, for example.
For what it is worth, the commercial satellite business is quite healthy; in fact, our government is critically dependent on it, and it is part of our PDD-63 critical infrastructure planning.
From the GAO's report Critical Infrastructure Protection: Commercial Satellite Security Should Be More Fully Addressed:
The commercial satellite industry is a global industry that includes many foreign-owned corporations as well as partnerships between U.S. and foreign corporations. As a result, the U.S. government depends on foreign and international companies. For example, some commercial space systems of foreign origin are used by the U.S. military for imagery and communications support. NDIA reported that foreign ownership of satellites is expected to grow and predicted that by 2010, 80 percent of commercial communication satellite services could be provided by foreign-owned companies. This globalization of the satellite industry could affect the availability of commercial satellite systems to U.S. government or commercial entities through frequency allocations, tariffs, politics, and international law.