Mark Holmes

SES has won a new contract with a Peruvian telecoms company which will enable the customer to serve the oil and gas and mining industries throughout the region, the company […]

In 2013, we took on a young editor for Via Satellite with high hopes. Fast forward just over seven years later, Caleb Henry has established himself as one of the […]

Eutelsat announced two new capacity deals in the space of 24 hours, including a deal with Liquid Telecom, which renewed and expanded its Ku-band capacity agreements on the EUTELSAT 7B […]

Satellite pay-TV subscription numbers in the Middle East countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are experiencing a sharp drop-off over the past few years, according to a new report […]

Speedcast gets ready for a new chapter under new CEO Joe Spytek as it prepares to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company announced Monday that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court […]

Forsway, the Swedish satellite/terrestrial broadband player, is adding a new member to its board of directors. The company announced Jan. 22 that Irdeto Executive Bengt Jonsson will join the board. […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a deal to work on space-to-ground optical communications with Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands. Optical communication between ground stations and satellites in orbit enables […]

Myriota will take part in a new project by the Australian government involving satellite, the company announced Wednesday. It will be involved in the SASAT1 Space Services Mission to deliver […]

Satellite manufacturing, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Johnny Cash. Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversation this week goes to France to talk to Jean-Marc Nasr, head of Space Systems […]

We are in the first weeks of January and a new year usually brings a new optimism, new hopes and new dreams. This year however, we start with another wave […]

The onslaught of pay-TV offerings such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ have no doubt changed the dynamics of broadcasting around the world, but broadcast remains a key market for satellite. […]

Sunil Bharti Mittal is one of India’s richest business people, and is worth over $10 billion according to Forbes. He is the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of […]

Welcome to our first big satellite operator round-up of the year, as the industry looks to begin 2021. While the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating, the satellite industry […]

With so many new satellites being launched into Geostationary Orbit, Low-Earth Orbit, and Medium-Earth Orbit, (GEO/MEO/LEO), ground segment and technology providers face increasing pressure to develop systems that power new […]

At the 13th European Space Conference on Wednesday, Gerry Collins, network and services policy expert for ESOA stated that the satellite industry needs to change its way of doing business […]

Rockets, “Beat Bobby Flay” (a cooking show for the uninitiated), French 1980s pop music, “The Crown,” “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”— all topics for our first Thursday Morning Conversation of 2021, […]

Last year, Airbus had the target of selling three of its new flexible OneSat satellites to customers around the world. Between January 1st 2020 and December 30th 2020, it had […]

“Why would astronauts on Earth have access to 5G at home, but not have the same access to the same technologies when they are on the Moon?”  Thierry Klein, head […]

In the final Thursday Morning Conversation of 2020, we catch up with Mark Dankberg. This is Dankberg’s second TMC of the year, but some big news has happened since June. […]

2020 has been quite a year in the satellite industry. We saw the fall and rise of OneWeb. We saw Intelsat go into Chapter 11, and then subsequently buy Gogo. […]

Over the course of this year, members of Via Satellite and CyberSat’s advisory boards have brought up the topic of supply chains numerous times while talking about some of the […]

In a new feature, we round up and put into context the most recent news involving the major satellite operators. The week of Dec. 7 was a relatively quiet one […]

Snowboarding and satellites. This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) veers from everything to the future of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations to snowboarding in the mountains, another interesting combination for a […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is serious about its partnership with the satellite industry, investing in the industry, and attracting the best in commercial satellite technology, Katie Arrington, chief […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation features Bill Chappell, CTO of Azure Global and vice president of Mission Systems at Microsoft, one of the global giants of business, but a player […]

Soon after naming new CEO Rick Baldridge, Viasat announced a major move in Europe that the company will  buy the remaining 51% share of Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI), a wholesale […]

We are going to do something new with this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) with OneWeb and O3B founder, Greg Wyler. We are going to pitch you a slightly surreal […]

At the start of this year, we could not have imagined our last edition of Via Satellite would be the end of such a tumultuous year for all of us […]

Working with telcos in major future communications projects is one of the holy grails for the satellite industry, particularly entering into the 5G era. There are already some interesting case […]

2020 has been one of the most disruptive, if not THE most disruptive year in recent history. The satellite industry has remained resilient in the face of global adversity. What […]