For this week's Thursday Morning Conversation we "travel" to Colorado to talk to Katherine Monson, head of Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA for vital discussion on James Bond and the state of the ground segment in the satellite industry, not a typical combination. Katherine has been working her way through all the James Bond movies…

This summer, Hughes Network Systems has conducted two tests of its HeloSat satellite communications system, and the company’s Defense Senior Director Wayne Marhefka tells Via Satellite these tests show the system is a production-ready, validated capability that will fill a need in helicopter communications.  “Hughes is really in the forefront of offering this system,” he…

Though it would be a challenge, it was evident that OneWeb’s project was groundbreaking. The company aimed to disrupt the space industry with its large satellite constellation – and that it did. OneWeb set a precedent that large players such as SpaceX, Telesat, and Amazon only followed. From early on in its journey, U.K. regulators,…

  Representatives from Telesat and SpaceX dug into their companies’ plans for constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and how they can provide backhaul in Via Satellite's Cell Backhaul Digital Week session  “The Low-Latency Constellation Battle to Connect Rural North America” on Thursday.  The two systems differ in the markets they plan to tackle first, and…