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I have got to be honest, I am not on TikTok. But after this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC), I know someone who most definitely is! This week’s conversation is […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation is with Khali Heath, principal product marketing manager at Intelsat. In this conversation we talk about her love of tennis, James Brown and R&B, as […]

For this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation we “travel” to Colorado to talk to Katherine Monson, head of Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA for vital discussion on James Bond and the […]

Astroscale revealed two new additions to its growing Astroscale U.S. division. Carolyn Belle was named Director of Advanced Systems and Rob Staples as Program Manager. Belle will help expand Astroscale […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Luxembourg to talk with Peter Platzer, the CEO of Spire. We find out that Peter was a classically trained tenor and is […]

Connectivity on a global and unprecedented scale has never been as important as it is today amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and deals between telcos and satellite companies carry extra resonance. […]

There are many things I thought I would never say, and getting a Harry Potter space-related exclusive would no doubt fall into that category. However, this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation […]

Virgin Galactic has hired Disney executive Michael Colglazier as the company’s new CEO. Colglazier has decades of experience at Disney, and was most recently president and managing director of Disney […]

ManSat Group has appointed Rachel Beattie as CFO. Rachel joins the company from SMP Partners Group, having previously held various senior financial management roles within the online and digital technology […]

Welcome to another of Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversations. This time we are off to Texas to talk to Tara Bamburg, manager of  Inflight WiFi and Entertainment at Southwest Airlines. […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) goes all the way to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to talk to Masood Mahmood, the CEO of Yahsat, one of […]

Yahsat announced Tuesday that its Board of Directors has appointed Andrew Cole as CFO. Cole will assume the position on July 1. He succeeds Balakrishnan Doraisamy, who is retiring after […]

We are back in Canada this week for another great Thursday Morning Conversation. This time we talk to one of the most well-known faces in the industry, Dan Goldberg, president […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, we talk to Norman Haughton, director of IFEC Product and Analytics at Air Canada. Haughton drives Air Canada’s In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) plans. In a […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has named Vernon Thorp its new director of Global Commercial Sales. In this position he will lead all commercial sales activities for Atlas V and the […]

Lockheed Martin on Monday completed its planned leadership transition with James Taiclet entering as its new president and CEO, succeeding Marillyn Hewson who remains with the company as executive chairman. […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 2014, […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation features a chat with Hana Bird, an operations engineer at Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom. Hana is one of the bright young talents […]

What is space medicine? Although the answer can vary, the practice focuses on ways to keep humans in homeostasis while they endure extreme environments. There’s also ways that the space […]

We have a great Thursday Morning Conversation this week for you as we go to California once again to talk with one of the most well-known faces in our industry, […]

Virgin Galactic, the Richard Branson-owned company working toward commercial spaceflight with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, last month announced a partnership with NASA to develop technically feasible high Mach vehicles. Through this […]

Retired NASA astronaut Tim Kopra has joined MDA as vice president of Robotics and Space Operations, the Canadian company announced Tuesday. Kopra will be responsible for the work of the […]

DISH Network has hired a former T-Mobile executive to oversee the company’s wireless buildout strategy. The company announced Monday that Dave Mayo is now executive vice president of Network Development and […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Los Angeles where we catch up with Relativity Space CEO and Co-Founder Tim Ellis, who talks about everything from the niche German […]

In the second of our two-part interview with Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer, we look at some of the key verticals outside of broadcast. Mobility remains a key driver for most […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Virginia where we talk to the very definition of a cybersecurity influencer, Bob Gourley, CTO and co-founder of OODA. Bob will be […]

Eutelsat released its First Quarter financial results last week and there were some encouraging signs as the operator looks to navigate the COVID-19 era. The operator’s broadcast revenues remained resilient, […]

The head of NASA’s human spaceflight office has resigned just one week before the agency is expected to launch astronauts from American soil for the first time in nearly a […]

SpaceX’s Senior Vice President of Production and Launch, Zachary Dunn, is moving to Relativity Space as the company’s vice president of Factory Development, Relativity announced Monday. Eric Berger of Ars […]

It has been quite a week in the satellite industry with the release of our OneWeb special edition and the Intelsat Chapter 11 news. However, we still bring you a […]