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The path that satellite constellation operator Globalstar took to signing Apple as its largest customer in history this past summer started with a crisis that happened 15 years ago. After […]

At any given moment around the world, 15 percent of the planet’s 5.2 billion mobile phone users are not connected, according to research conducted by Lynk, the first company to […]

CyberSatGov brings together key influencers from the government, satellite, and cyber communities to talk about the growing security threats to satellite assets. The war in Ukraine has brought this topic […]

The telecom industry has been observing a steady rise in demand for reliable high-speed connectivity services. It is going through the migration to 5G networks to meet these evolving requirements. […]

After the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea burst, Swedish investigators found evidence that Russia detonated the pipelines in an act of “gross sabotage.” Russia’s sabotage was done […]

At World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris recently, there was a lot of chatter about a potential combination of Intelsat and SES. Rumors swirled, but this has always been […]

There’s a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. But in 2022, much of the imagery that’s captured by commercial satellites flying over Ukraine has rendered the world […]

Farming, like just about everything these days, runs on data. When a tractor is planting a field, it isn’t just laying down seeds. It is also collecting data. The precise […]

We are just weeks’ away from our CyberSatGov event in Reston, Virginia, and we have a great roster of speakers lined up to talk cybersecurity and satellites. The A-list roster […]

Until quite recently, satellite communication services largely played a complementary, if somewhat of a niche role, to terrestrial telcos in telecommunications. Chiefly, satcom operators could potentially provide coverage for communities […]

One giant leap for mankind is taking shape through the convergence of real and virtual worlds, powered by 5G connectivity, technologies such as AI and distributed ledger technology/blockchain, and data. […]

World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) was back in force this year in Paris. Sessions and happy hours were packed, and many commented on the number of new faces at the […]

The expansion of satellite data from new providers and increased remote sensing technologies is helping climate scientists fill in critical gaps in government-based coverage, and helping to bring the big […]

The satellite industry had a wake-up call earlier this year when the Russian government waged a cyberattack against a commercial satellite operator on the eve of its invasion of Ukraine. […]

Space assets play a vital role in modern warfare and keeping them secure is a priority. For the U.S. government and the Space Force, this is a key challenge as […]

If there is one subject that is sure to get the satellite industry talking it is major industry consolidation. After much talk in previous years, things have really kicked into […]

The amount and magnitude of natural disasters that have hit the world in the last couple of years is earth-shattering — both literally and figuratively. Their number has more than […]

Three years ago, I moved from Brighton, England, to Glasgow, Scotland. It was a little daunting to move from the sunniest and queerest city in the United Kingdom, to rainy […]

Five years ago, satellite communications provider Viasat wrote a white paper that was jokingly called “Streaming Netflix to the International Space Station,” meant as a call to action for NASA […]

The relationship between telcos and satellite players could be changing. A number of factors are leading to a perfect storm, giving satellite a larger opportunity to serve telcos. One recent […]

NASA has transformed the way it works with commercial space companies in recent years, and there is no better example than SpaceX’s historic first crewed flight to the International Space […]

When Rocket Lab first launched its Ātea-1 rocket in 2009, the company put New Zealand on the map in the space industry. “When Peter Beck and I started the commercial […]

Making a revolutionary new satellite starts with a couple simple questions: what problem are we trying to solve and how do we solve it? The answers often start with a […]

Welcome to our August edition of Via Satellite, or should I say Via Smallsat — an entire edition dedicated to the vibrant small satellite market. All of the content in […]

What do soil moisture, Russian yachts, hurricanes, and GNSS jamming all have in common? These are all detected and monitored from space using a little-understood category called radio frequency (RF). […]

An estimated 18,500 smallsats will launch between 2022 to 2031, yet the smallsat market presents a growing number of challenges such as limited market addressability, difficult profitability, oversupply, and concentration […]

Sitting on the stage of a crowded Denver Convention Center conference room, Dan Dooley, CCO of Washington D.C. metro-area based mobile connectivity company Lynk, tries to explain that the cell […]

As the missions and business cases for smallsats evolve and grow, smallsat propulsion is innovating to keep up. Smallsats need more flexibility and maneuverability, and access to multiple orbits. How […]

Today, people who want to get data from space have more options than ever before. They can buy the data from a space company. They could start their own space […]

The global startup space industry is thriving. Startup space ventures brought in a record $15 billion in financing in 2021, and seed investments in startups rose by 46 percent, according […]