With the Olympics now in full swing, it is only natural we should go Tokyo for this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation to talk to Astroscale CEO Nobu Okada. Life is a series of events. Imagine somewhat randomly going to a space conference in Bremen, Germany, and coming out of it with the idea to start…

The satellite industry is moving into new use cases beyond traditional use cases around communication, intelligence, and navigation, as the industry grows and hundreds more satellites are launched to space each year. This expansion of the industry is fueling new use cases for satellite technology, Clint Crosier, director of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Aerospace and Satellite…

The global shutdown in 2020 had impacts across the satellite and space sector, but there were no uniform effects and there is no industry-wide blueprint for getting back on track, as customer operations and supply chains try to return activities to pre-pandemic levels. Carissa Christensen, CEO of analytics firm BryceTech says launch providers did not…

Just over five years ago, Facebook’s connectivity plans took a huge blow when the AMOS-6 satellite was destroyed during a Falcon 9 rocket test fire. The global connectivity giant Facebook had planned to lease capacity off this satellite and after the failure, it never pursued a replacement. While Amazon and SpaceX are taking part in…