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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.

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.

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

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 […]

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.

“The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have,” said U.S. actor Leonard Nimoy, who is probably better known for his role as Spock on U.S. television […]

CubeSats have come a long way from their origins as a teaching tool for aerospace engineering students. Robert Twiggs a professor at Stanford University first envisioned CubeSats as a learning […]

Last year, Michel de Rosen, then CEO of Eutelsat, won Via Satellite’s SEOTY. This year we have six contenders for the award. Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, Mark […]

Cybersecurity concerns continue to dominate headlines as one of the most far-reaching cross-industry threats facing an interdependent digital world. With space becoming more contested than ever before, the threat to […]

Via Satellite's Satellite Executive of The Year (SEOTY) is the industry's most prestigious individual award.

There was a definite change of tone at SatComRus 2016 where the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it could impact the Russian space market was the main theme. In […]

The Middle East has a long been a vibrant broadcast market with strong audiences and demand for content. Some of its major broadcasters such as beIN Media Group, Al Jazeera […]

The satellite industry is developing at a rapid rate. New applications are emerging all the time. Due to the fact that satellite can be used for so many applications, such […]

Over the last few years, space has suddenly become hip with the likes of Spacebook, Google and Facebook resonating with young Millennials attracted by the possibilities of working on space-based […]

Via Satellite turned 30 years old this year; to celebrate, we decided to give ourselves the task of listing what we think are the key 30 events to impact our […]

Via Satellite’s Satellite Executive of the Year winners are in a unique position to examine the state of the industry. In a special round table, we bring together Romain Bausch, […]

It was a phone call from a friend of Ted Koplar, then president of Koplar Communications, about a construction permit that returned the Koplar family to the broadcast world. There […]

The world was a very different place in 1986. Via Satellite the magazine launched into an era where was no internet, no mobile phones, and even though it was only […]

For decades, satellite programs were the preserve of the countries that could afford them. Harnessing the cash and capability to buy, build and launch a satellite has long been beyond […]

There was a time when satellites could be described as more “routine.” Yes, most are heavily customized beasts of machines, but the launch sector knew what operators needed and had […]

Africa is a region where many satellite operators believe there are strong opportunities for growth, particularly in terms of the broadcast sector where pay-TV penetration levels are still low. Bubbling […]

Africa is seen as the land of opportunity. With the majority of its population still struggling to get connected, and due to its sheer size, the continent is held up […]

It’s no overstatement: there is seemingly always something going on in the Middle East. And now, with nuclear-related sanctions lifted from Iran, the region has, perhaps, even more eyes on […]

One of the big buzz terms at recent satellite events has been the Internet of Things (IoT), where we live in an uber-connected world full of connected devices which can […]

Many in the industry believe that 2019 will be a critical decision-making point on the future of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) constellation, with the […]

There is an interesting new trend present in the maritime industry. Companies traditionally focused on the aero market, notably Panasonic Avionics and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), have made acquisitions — […]

After much anticipation, the first full-fledged linear 4K Ultra-HD channels are up and running. The barrier of insufficient content is falling faster than it’s worth charting, now that producers are […]