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The New Space Spark: Retrospective of the Start of a Revolution | January/February 2024
Dan Hart began his three-decade career at Boeing in 1983, a path that led him into many enviable adventures — from working in Europe, gaining experience from engineers who had […]
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How SpaceX Alums Are Branching Out and Shaping the Startup Economy | April 2023
In SpaceX’s more than two decades, the company has grown from a fledgling startup into the world’s leading launch provider. Today, SpaceX boasts a reported staff of about 10,000 people. […]
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Speedcast’s New CEO Joe Spytek Wants to Transform the Company Post-Bankruptcy | April 2021
Speedcast’s acquisition spree in the 2010’s made it one of the world’s largest remote telecommunications service providers. But, 2020 presented steep challenges to the company’s remote oil and gas and […]
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Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2020 | March 2021
This marks the third year of Via Satellite’s Satellite Technology of the Year (STOTY) award, recognizing a single technology, innovation, or concept, as well as the organization responsible for its […]
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Satellite Executive of the Year Nominees for 2020 | March 2021
Via Satellite presents a group of six nominees for the prestigious Satellite Executive of the Year award, which honors an executive that has led a company to great financial success […]
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‘I’d Bet on Telesat’ — Dan Goldberg All In on Lightspeed LEO Play | March 2021
In February, Telesat finally came forward with the long-awaited announcement of the details of its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, a venture away from Geostationary Orbit (GEO) for the Canadian satellite […]
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Satellite Companies Confront Supply Chain Challenges in the COVID Era | January 2021
Over the course of this year, members of Via Satellite and CyberSat’s advisory boards have brought up the topic of supply chains numerous times while talking about some of the […]
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It Was Supposed to be a Perfect Match: An Autopsy of Three Failed Satellite Industry Takeovers | January 2021
In commercial satellite industry circles, merger and acquisition (M&A) deals that will “change everything” are whispered about like a six-mile-wide asteroid tracking too close to the Earth. Will this be […]
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2020: A Year of Dramatic Change in the Satellite Industry | December 2020
Industry-watchers could almost get whiplash looking at how 2020 has progressed. Think about everything that happened just in the first half of the year: the FCC made its final decision […]
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Righting the Ship: An Interview With Maxar CEO Daniel Jablonsky | October 2020
Maxar Technologies came into existence in November 2017 through a titanic merger across North American borders. Canada’s largest space company at the time, MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates (MDA), along with […]
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Back to the Mission: Post-Traumatic Recovery for the Satellite Industry’s Workforce | July 2020
“It was like driving 100 miles per hour through an intersection and getting blindsided by a truck.” This is how one of the 88 former Bigelow Aerospace employees describes being […]
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Satellite Operators Adjust as COVID-19 Sweeps Normal Life Away | June 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has swept the globe in one of the worst human tragedies of recent times. It is something that has united us all as we embrace a new […]
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Battle of the Billionaires | April 2020
If things go according to plan with SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the satellite industry could soon see the era of constellations made up of tens of thousands of […]












