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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 […]

Summer is truly here and most of us have been enjoying being back on the road and seeing our friends and colleagues within the community. There are some interesting talking […]

The Ukrainian crisis has shed light on the criticality of space assets for military operations, with the hacking of Viasat’s KA-SAT numbing the ability of the Ukrainian armed forces in […]

Smallsats and the rise of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations have generated attention and media coverage in recent years. At the same time, orders for large satellites in Geostationary Orbit […]

“Your talent acquisition department better be on the offensive in this market. What you did in 2019 will not work in 2022,” says Chris Silva, talent acquisition leader for SpaceLink. […]

As more countries and constellation providers launch into space, the urgency for better space situation awareness and potential collision risks grows. Yet the question of whether space is really crowded […]

Welcome to the June edition of Via Satellite. It is exciting to say that the trade show season is in full swing as we return to seeing our community. We […]

The world’s energy consumption is increasing and will continue to grow. According to a report by the University of Oxford, current global energy consumption is more than 160 billion megawatt […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite operators have their sights firmly set on the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market, and have made some bold statements about the impact they expect to have on […]

The half-century push to carry humans and cargo to space, initially funded by governments and enabled by investments and ingenuity of space sector visionaries, is here at last. What are […]

On February 24th, the world changed for Ukraine as Russia mounted an invasion which marked a new era in world geopolitics. In the initial stages of the invasion, cities like […]

In late December, Eutelsat announced Eva Berneke as its new CEO, tapping a leader from outside of the industry at a pivotal time for the operator. Berneke, who has worked […]

It​​ is hard to believe it has already been a month since the SATELLITE show. It was refreshing and humbling for me personally to be part of the community in […]

The in-flight connectivity (IFC) market is one of many verticals disrupted by the proliferation of satellites in Non-Geostationary Orbits (NGSO). While the aviation industry is still in the early stages […]