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Welcome to the 40th Anniversary Edition of Via Satellite where we celebrate an absolutely remarkable 40 years. It is hard to believe this magazine started in 1986 and 40 years […]

Over a 40-year history, Via Satellite has told countless stories of the space and satellite industry. From its first edition in 1986 to today, the magazine’s writers and editors and […]

Autonomous systems, ubiquitous sensors, and AI-optimized targeting are positioned to transform tomorrow’s warfighting domain, where the ability to see, decide, and act first may rest with constellations in orbit rather […]

Talk to space industry aficionados about their vision of the not so distant future and you’ll hear about a world of science fiction turned reality. Fleets of orbital data centers […]

Viasat celebrates its 40-year anniversary in 2026, alongside Via Satellite. The enormous changes in the last four decades begat enormous opportunity, and fortunately Viasat has been able to convert opportunities […]

Happy 40th Birthday to Via Satellite! In 2025, ~4,500 satellites were launched into space globally – a greater than twenty times increase compared to an average, annual launch cadence 40 […]

In 1977, the Ariane development program was progressing smoothly, with the goal set at the beginning of 1973 to execute the first qualification flight during 1979. The initial qualification program […]

When Mark asked me to contribute to Via Satellite’s 40th anniversary edition, I was honored. I also had an uncomfortable realization: I’ve been working in wireless communications for roughly as […]

When I first entered the commercial space industry in 2012, we spent a lot of time explaining why small satellites mattered and the concept of disruptive innovation: a technology that […]

Forty years is a long time in any industry. In the satellite sector, it is almost a lifetime. When Via Satellite began chronicling this industry four decades ago, satellite was […]

When humans set their sights on the Moon more than a half-century ago, no one could have predicted how far government would take that vision — or how much farther […]

Viasat’s third ViaSat-3 satellite (F3) has officially entered service over the Asia-Pacific region, the operator confirmed Monday.  The F3 satellite will add 1 terabit per second of capacity to Viasat’s […]

All.Space has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for its Hydra satcom terminal under a contract focused on increasing production rates in the U.S. defense supply chain.  […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected NorthStar Earth & Space to lead a study on uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry.  NorthStar’s European subsidiary will lead a consortium for ESA’s Forecasting of […]

SES awarded a contract to OHB to manufacture 18 Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites for Europe’s IRIS² constellation in a deal announced Monday. OHB said the contract is worth nearly 1 […]

Smaller space companies want to see how the “commercial first” mantra of Pentagon acquisition reform translates into programs of record. The Space Force contends that its nine, new program acquisition […]

InspeCity, a space startup based in India, has raised $10.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round to support four planned on-orbit missions over the next year and a half.  […]

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope lifted off on Sunday morning on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission. The telescope, named after NASA’s first chief of astronomy, will orbit 1 million miles […]

The Meteosat Third Generation system imaging system is now complete after Arianespace launched the second satellite on Aug. 27.  European meteorological agency EUMETSAT confirmed after the launch that the MTG-I2 […]

Swedish satellite operator Ovzon is beginning to enter the German market through two new partnerships announced this week. The company will perform an initial test implementation with a German government […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded more than 500 million euro in funding for the European Launch Challenge between PLD Space, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Factory Augsburg. ESA also […]

Astrum Space plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger to fund the company’s plans for a “satellite-to-device” (S2D) broadcast network for the Asia-Pacific region. The […]

U.S. satcom terminal manufacturer Lite Coms is now selling its Lite Sat 1.3A terminal in a validated remote-terminal configuration for SES O3b mPOWER Sovereign Services and Hybrid Sovereign Gateway architectures. […]

Kepler Communications will combine its optical data relay infrastructure with NorthStar’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) services under the terms of a new strategic partnership the two companies announced Thursday. The deal […]

LeoLabs on Wednesday said the Space Force has awarded the company a $20.7 million contract to deliver a modified version of its Scout containerized space surveillance radar for a “new […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The Office of Space Commerce’s space traffic management system, known as TraCSS, has onboarded more than 70 satellite owners and operators and more than 10 nations […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded contracts on Wednesday to Muon Space, Orbital Micro Systems doing business as (DBA) Weather Stream, and Spire Global to develop new weather satellite instruments for […]

Lyntris was formed earlier this year when Vitesse Systems combined with Accelint to form a new defense tech company. The combined company supports defense and national security missions across space, […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Impulse Space has three rideshare missions to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) fully booked through 2028 and is looking at increasing the rideshare missions to twice as a […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Edge Aerospace is scaling its manufacturing in the U.S. through a licensing agreement with Redwire under which Redwire will manufacture Edge’s data processing units (DPUs) and […]