Long before the first Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites began launching by the likes of SpaceX and OneWeb, a crop of innovative smallsat manufacturers began building a new type of factory. Balancing quality with cost, and embracing automation and AI, these innovators hoped to capitalize on future volume demand for the new LEO economy. Their thinking…

Established satellite operators, SES and Eutelsat, joined panelists from SpaceX, emerging constellation provider Mangata Networks and network orchestration player Aalyria, in a lively debate on the viability of constellations businesses, the state of competition, the merits of vertical integration and the role of cloud infrastructure in changing the face of the market. Moderator Christopher Baugh,…

At any given moment around the world, 15 percent of the planet’s 5.2 billion mobile phone users are not connected, according to research conducted by Lynk, the first company to demonstrate a satellite-to-mobile-phone satellite constellation. What if those disconnections – from being in a remote area far from terrestrial signals or cut off from cell…

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. The targeted ground station attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network resulted in tens of thousands of modems shutting down in the besieged country, severing satellite broadband…