Aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin will integrate its new software-defined satellite architecture, SmartSat, on 10 of its nanosatellite missions this year, starting with Linus and Pony Express. The new software-defined capability is designed to allow satellites to change their missions in orbit, letting users “add capability and assign new missions with a software push, just like adding…

Hawthorne: Amazon’s vision is to democratize access to satellites and the enormous amounts of increasingly important data they’re collecting. Substantial investments are required to build the ground

By the time you read this, WGS-10 (the tenth satellite in the system) is likely to have launched, and there are at least two more satellites coming down the pipe. The United States and its international allies

Sullivan says entertainment has irreversibly shifted to an on-demand model, which is well-suited for IP delivery. “This is invariably going to cause a decrease in demand for the historical satellite services