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Magazine
Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2024 | March 2025
The Via Satellite Technology of the Year award recognizes breakthrough technology achievements and the impact they have on the satellite industry. This award is now in its seventh year, and […]
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Awards
Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2023 | March 2024
The Via Satellite Technology of the Year award recognizes breakthrough technology achievements and how they impact the industry. This award is now in its sixth year, and has recognized technology […]
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10 Hottest
The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2024 | March 2024
Via Satellite’s 10 Hottest Companies rounds up 10 “must watch” companies in the satellite industry, from constellations, manufacturing, launch, and more. Via Satellite editors chose the companies on this list […]
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Interview
Peter Beck’s Vision Of Rocket Lab Extends Beyond Himself | October 2023
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck remembers the exact moment 17 years ago when he realized his launch business was going to be successful and stay successful in the long-term. He […]
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10 Hottest
10 Smallsat Startups to Watch in 2023 | August 2023
Today’s space startup landscape is arguably the most difficult and competitive it has been in several years. Space investors, now much more cautious following a string of big bank failures […]
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SATELLITE 2023
SATELLITE 2023 Preview: A Year of Satellite & Cellular Integration, Software-Driven Space, and Sustainability in Orbit | March 2023
While preparing for each annual SATELLITE conference and exhibition, we get a unique view into the growth trajectories for both the commercial satellite and space industries. The size of the […]
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Magazine
Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2022 | March 2023
Each year, Via Satellite magazine and its readers recognize a handful of technologies for either their notable level of innovation, their contribution to the development of the space and satellite […]
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Magazine
The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2023 | March 2023
For the fifth year, Via Satellite’s 10 Hottest Companies list highlights the “must watch” companies providing satellite communications, ground systems, manufacturing, imagery and sensing, and launch services. Via Satellite editors […]
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Interview
Globalstar’s Apple Deal Puts CEO David Kagan in the Perfect SPOT to Think Big | December 2022
The path that satellite constellation operator Globalstar took to signing Apple as its largest customer in history this past summer started with a crisis that happened 15 years ago. After […]
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Magazine
Space-Based Shortcuts Advance in the Last-Mile Connectivity Race Against Fiber | August 2022
Sitting on the stage of a crowded Denver Convention Center conference room, Dan Dooley, CCO of Washington D.C. metro-area based mobile connectivity company Lynk, tries to explain that the cell […]
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Perspective
10 Smallsat Startups to Watch | August 2022
The global startup space industry is thriving. Startup space ventures brought in a record $15 billion in financing in 2021, and seed investments in startups rose by 46 percent, according […]
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SATELLITE 2022
SATELLITE 2022 Preview: New Programs Pack a Powerful Speaker Lineup | March 2022
The SATELLITE 2022 conference and exhibition comes at a time of peak activity involving public and private investment, a rapid expansion of the off-world economy, a massive deployment of satellite […]
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Awards
Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2021 | March 2022
Via Satellite presents its annual Satellite Technology of the Year award to companies that develop and deploy the most impactful satellite-related products and services available to the market. Via Satellite […]
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10 Hottest
The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2022 | March 2022
Back by popular demand, Via Satellite’s 10 Hottest Companies list highlights the “must watch” companies providing satellite communications, ground systems, manufacturing, imagery and sensing, and launch services. Via Satellite editors […]
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Connectivity
Massive Technical Leaps Push Satellite to the Fronthaul of 5G IoT | November 2021
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 […]
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SATELLITE 2021
SATELLITE 2021 Preview: It’s Time to Get Excited | September 2021
IT’S TME TO GET EXCITED ABOUT THE SATELLITE 2021 CONFERENCE Every year, at every SATELLITE show, people always ask me what excites me about the event. This year, my answer […]
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Magazine
Understanding the Pieces on the Board in the New Satellite Game | July 2021
The past year-an-a-half must have felt like an out-of-body experience for the satellite industry. After nearly two decades of rapid technology innovation and broadening access to space, the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Perspective
The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2021 | July 2021
The space and satellite industry is at an exciting inflection point, as startups prove their business plans and industry standard-bearers invest in next-generation technology. Via Satellite’s third annual crop of […]
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SATELLITE 2021
Global Entrepreneurs Practice Their Pitches for Startup Space 2021 | June 2021
Now in its fifth year at the SATELLITE conference and exhibition, the Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest has become both a must-win for the aerospace industry’s new entrants and a […]
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Industry
Satellite Technology of the Year Nominees for 2020 | March 2021
This marks the third year of Via Satellite’s Satellite Technology of the Year (STOTY) award, recognizing a single technology, innovation, or concept, as well as the organization responsible for its […]
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Industry
Satellite Executive of the Year Nominees for 2020 | March 2021
Via Satellite presents a group of six nominees for the prestigious Satellite Executive of the Year award, which honors an executive that has led a company to great financial success […]
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Analysis
The FCC’s Path to a U.S. Nationwide 5G Rollout Gets Lost in the Thick of Rural America | February 2021
The era of Ajit Pai’s Federal Communications Commission chairmanship has come to an end, and with it, perhaps, the Blitzkrieg approach to regulatory engineering. Pai was determined to establish the […]
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Industry
It Was Supposed to be a Perfect Match: An Autopsy of Three Failed Satellite Industry Takeovers | January 2021
In commercial satellite industry circles, merger and acquisition (M&A) deals that will “change everything” are whispered about like a six-mile-wide asteroid tracking too close to the Earth. Will this be […]
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People
Flying Under the Radar: Space and Satellite Industry Leaders to Watch in 2021 | December 2020
It’s safe to say that most people are done with the year 2020 – a seemingly never-ending nightmare of health crisis, economic recession, and political upheaval converging in a perfect […]
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Africa
Africa Unites its Diverse and Rapidly Growing Space Industry | November 2020
Africa’s space community leaders want the rest of the world to stop referring to the continent as a homogenous, “developing” market. They do not want to be seen as a […]
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Industry
Righting the Ship: An Interview With Maxar CEO Daniel Jablonsky | October 2020
Maxar Technologies came into existence in November 2017 through a titanic merger across North American borders. Canada’s largest space company at the time, MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates (MDA), along with […]
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Technology
HAPS: A Satellite Operator’s Big Investment in the Stratosphere | September 2020
“Balloons are the future of connectivity.” What sounds like a line torn straight out of a Thomas Pynchon steampunk novel is actually the core mission statement of Loon, the Google/Alphabet […]
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Technology
ESIMs in Motion: A Gigantic Leap Forward for Mobile Ground Systems | August 2020
“It’s a satellite terminal that behaves like a mobile phone.” This is how Robert Bell, executive director of the World Teleport Association (WTA) describes a successful modern-day Earth Station in […]
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Industry
Back to the Mission: Post-Traumatic Recovery for the Satellite Industry’s Workforce | July 2020
“It was like driving 100 miles per hour through an intersection and getting blindsided by a truck.” This is how one of the 88 former Bigelow Aerospace employees describes being […]
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NewSpace
Startups’ Post-Pandemic Survival Depends on Timing and Investor Quality | June 2020
In a recent interview with Via Satellite, Airspace Internet Exchange Chairman Tom Choi claimed that the coronavirus pandemic should cast into doubt the future of any company dependent upon venture […]





























