Aerospace is in the midst of a broad-based renaissance. Smallsat and Cubesat architectures are enabling numerous commercial operators to provide remote sensing and communications constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), areas that have recently only been serviced by large, expensive systems. Commercial space station developers are also knocking on the door of deploying the first…

It is not often in this day and age, that someone leads for over 20 years, but David Hartshorn can say he did exactly this. He has led the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) for more than 20 years. Therefore, it came as a surprise that Hartshorn announced he was resigning his position as the Secretary…

Could the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) bandwidth replace Wi-Fi as the world’s common connectivity link? According to Preston Marshall, head of access for Google and director of the CBRS Alliance’s Enterprise Council, Wi-Fi and CBRS share many of the same characteristics. “At one point in history Wi-Fi was actually considered a ‘garbage band.’ Now,…

It is not every day you get to interview one of the world’s most celebrated entrepreneurs and businessmen but I got the opportunity last March during the SATELLITE 2018 Conference & Exhibition in Washington, D.C. Even though I have done many interviews with CEOs all over the world, I still feel the buzz going to…