The relationship between satellite operators and telcos can at times seem like a troubled marriage — “It is difficult to live together. But it's more difficult to live alone,” Jean-Luc Vuillemin, special executive advisor to the CEO of mobile network operator Orange, told a session at last week’s SATELLITE 2024. Leaders representing Orange, Telstra, and…

International Telecommunication Union General Secretary Doreen Bogdan-Martin sought to position her agency as the conscience of the space industry in her keynote address to SATELLITE 2024, urging support for the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda and efforts to connect the third of humanity, overwhelmingly poor and rural, who are still offline. The satellite industry, through…

After Russian military hackers knocked much of Viasat's KA-SAT network offline at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned about the threat to other satellite operators that they organized an unprecedented briefing for company executives. Although it was classified, executives without a security clearance were given a temporary one…

Getting cybersecurity right at a federal agency means learning to speak the language of the program and mission managers who actually run the IT systems you’re trying to protect against hackers and cyberspies, said Rob Powell, a senior advisor on cybersecurity in the Office of the CIO (OCIO) at NASA. “The culture at NASA is…