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Launch rates in Asia are set to eclipse U.S. figures by 2025, showing that the region is on the path to reap significant returns. The benefits of Asia’s proliferation of smallsats include disaster management, agriculture, fast and affordable data, job creation and an expected new wave of business opportunities.

Editor's note for the Asia 2017 edition of Via Satellite

Airways New Zealand, Aireon Partner on South Pacific Operational Validation Airways New Zealand and Aireon announced that they have signed an agreement in principle to enter into an operational validation […]

As an editor and journalist for more than 20 years, I have interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of C-Suite executives from a variety of sectors spanning all industry verticals from […]

John F. Kennedy said in 1959, “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, […]

Tom Wheeler closed out his tenure as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman in a most surprising manner — releasing a call for more than $80 billion to build out fiber-based […]

New programs are producing a robust amount of architecture that will effectively put multiple clusters of small satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in the coming years. Companies continue to […]

The satellite broadcast industry is learning to deal with what is now the new “normal.” Over-the-Top (OTT) service adoption has skyrocketed over the last year. Consumers want to watch what […]

On September 1, 2016, at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX observed an anomaly about eight minutes in advance of a scheduled test firing of a […]

Panelists highlighted a handful of lucrative developments in the flat-panel antenna space but took on a cautious tone in warning the audience to be wary of the hype surrounding the flat-panel market...

When faced with a shifting market, business leaders more or less have two options to adapt: they can expand the business into new markets to stimulate growth, or they can […]

A group of industry experts described how they plan to position themselves in this market, as well as their predictions for its growth trajectory in the coming years at the "In-Flight Connectivity Focus: Service Providers and Airlines - Who Picks up the Tab?" panel at SATELLITE 2017.

Execs from satellite manufacturers covered a range of topics from launch to satellite servicing — but it seems the biggest takeaway was the need to push for collaboration between satellite manufacturers and their customers.

As the satellite industry faces evolving security threats from nation-states, criminals, and other rogue entities, using the right strategies to manage security is of utmost importance to all stakeholders, from […]

Satellite executives are at a critical juncture in many ways in terms of determining how they will move forward with so much recent development with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) services

Leaders of Eutelsat, Telesat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, and ViaSat, converged to talk everything from reduced launch prices, new markets for satellite, as well as the future for GEO-, MEO-, and LEO-based satellites at SATELLITE 2017.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, joined the SATELLITE 2017 stage and unveiled the company's New Glenn rocket as well as its first customer: Eutelsat.

Financial experts joined a panel at SATELLITE 2017 to discuss where they're looking for the biggest opportunities, what space companies need to do to attract investors' interest, and how to manage the risk that comes along with investing in an emerging market.

While the Department of Defense's (DoD) space programs and policies are at something of a crossroads right now, plenty of government and industry leaders have been thinking deeply on what to do next.

At SATELLITE 2017, a group of industry entrepreneurs gathered to address concerns about when some smallsat companies will see profitability.

A spread of entrepreneurs ranging from experienced engineers to young college students took the stage at SATELLITE 2017's new Unveiled Theater, hoping to clinch the grand prize at the Startup Space 2017 Entrepreneur Pitch Contest.

A panel of CTOs and other executives from major companies in the ground segment market gathered at Monday's Opening General Session to discuss the coming challenges and opportunities they see in the near future.

Small satellites are primed to have a bigger role in military satellite communications. That was the key takeaway from the “Milspace in the 21st Century: SmallSats and Disaggregated Space Architectures” […]

KD Adamson, a futurist, author, keynote speaker and presenter, painted a vision of the future and what it means for satellite.

1. Ground Terminal Developments After recent innovations in the skies flooded the markets with bandwidth, it is time for ground segment to raise the bar to ensure a greater integration […]

The chairman of the SATELLITE 2017 Conference & Exhibition answers the most frequently asked question he gets throughout the yearlong preparation for the event.

Issues such as low capacity pricing, new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) systems, reusable rockets, as well as the future of satellite communications in a data-driven society, are just some of the topics that could form the basis for a number of discussions at this year's SATELLITE Conference & Exhibition.

Bangabandhu Satellite 1 Passes Critical Design Review, Advances Toward Launch The Bangabandhu Satellite 1 program has successfully passed its Critical Design Review (CDR), which took place with Thales Alenia Space […]

On behalf of all the Via Satellite team, I would like to start off by congratulating Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, who is our 2016 Satellite Executive of […]

Blockchain, the technology behind the (in)famous Bitcoin, is lauded by many as the next big thing: despite still being in its infancy, this technology promises to bring a full new […]