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It’s a solid vote of confidence. The United Kingdom’s National Space Strategy is an endorsement of the homegrown innovators in the sector. It puts into focus two things: The United […]

Aeronautical engineer Austin Link entered his post-graduate career amid the initial SpaceX Falcon 9 launches, dreaming about a future on orbit where, as he puts it, “we could sail the […]

Most people have group chats and use them to update family when there is big news, or just for the joy of talking to loved ones. But imagine opening up […]

Intelsat has had a tumultuous 18 months and has made some of the biggest headlines in the industry, going through Chapter 11 restructuring. Acquiring Gogo Commercial Aviation while in bankruptcy […]

I write this editor’s note the week that 90-year-old actor William Shatner, an icon from many our childhoods through watching Star Trek, went to space on a Blue Origin flight. […]

Cybersecurity remains one of the central topics when it comes to the space sector, not the least because of the role that satellite networks play in society, from satellite communications […]

“Max-Q” is the moment in the launch sequence where a rocket experiences maximum dynamic pressure. After this point, the force on the rocket decreases quickly and the entire mission control […]

Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s “big day for American leadership” was Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 — The start of a public auction of 120 megahertz of 3.7 gigahertz C-band spectrum […]

Cloud computing – pushing an organization’s data away from on-premise servers to the virtual environment – is commonplace today for enterprises, with nearly seven in 10 businesses already using cloud […]

New Space is greedy for ground. Traditional Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites are stationary relative to the Earth — they hang at a fixed point in the sky and a […]

The SATELLITE show once again offered a barometer of the industry’s growing reputation as well as providing an exciting look into satellite’s future. Hosting Sir Richard Branson and Sunil Bharti […]

As the COVID-19 situation is improving around the globe, the cruise industry is emerging from a period of near-absolute inactivity. In the early days of the pandemic, contamination clusters onboard […]

Both long standing and recent trends in the space industry have shed light on new needs for financing space activities. The development of new ventures in the space sector has […]

The space and satellite industry got back together in person at SATELLITE 2021 with a lot to discuss, as progress has not slowed down since March 2020. This year, topics […]

The U.S. government has realized that it needs to step up its game in the Arctic as the region becomes increasingly strategic to security and economic interests. Increasing activities in […]

Neil Masterson was new to the satellite industry when he joined the revamped OneWeb in November 2020 after more than 20 years at Thomson Reuters. Nearly a year later, Masterson […]

Karina Perez Molina has not always felt represented in the space industry. At space conferences in the past, she sees herself more in the service staff than in the keynotes […]

Laser communications satellites are poised to help make ultra-secure communications networks possible, with current capability demonstrations showing optical communications using lasers to send greater amounts of data faster to and […]

Ground systems technology is years behind the satellites it supports and catching up will entail a fundamental transformation of the sector and the introduction of interoperable standards, panelists at SATELLITE […]

The perfect antenna is one the customer uses, never sees, and never worries about, said Carl Novello, the chief technology officer of NXT Communications (NXTCOMM). “Who is the user of […]

The push to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in military satellite systems in the coming years will require greater use of commercial advancements in data management and […]

Faced with a steady decline in the price of their basic commodity, satellite operators have turned to vertical integration to drive efficiency savings and create new business models which capture […]

Like many of its United Kingdom and United States counterparts, NanoAvionics started out as a group of college students building a satellite in a classroom, with dreams of providing low-cost […]

OneWeb and Hughes Sign on Service Distribution Agreements for US, India Hughes Network Systems has agreed to distribute OneWeb capacity to its customers in two agreements announced Thursday at SATELLITE […]

New ideas, a new focus on the consumer, and new technologies are driving growth and change in the launch segment of the space industry, speakers from leading launch providers said […]

Sir Richard Branson’s time in space was just a few minutes, but it was a journey 25 years in the making. During Wednesday’s closing keynote at SATELLITE 2021, Branson shared […]

Execution and meeting customer needs are critical to making the business case for new satellite Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) companies, major satellite operators said Tuesday at the opening of the SATELLITE […]

Last summer, Amazon Web Services dove further into the space sector by establishing the AWS Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division. AWS signaled its serious intent by placing retired U.S. Air […]

There are many factors driving the ballooning complexity of ground systems, but paradoxically one of them is the customer desire for simplicity. “We’re at a position in the market where […]

The satellite industry has seen huge changes since the last SATELLITE show, with constellations, consolidations, SPACs, space tourism — and a number of these developments made headlines beyond the industry. […]