Shaun Waterman

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 […]

LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I’m not standing […]

LOS ANGELES — MITRE, the federal contractor that runs R&D labs for the U.S. government, is developing a space cyber lab where real satellite hardware and software can be tested to ensure […]

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer […]

As satellite operators have wrestled with the commoditization of bandwidth, they’ve sought to expand their offerings down the value chain, wrapping the connectivity they sell in value-added services designed to […]

Satellite manufacturers emerging from pandemic-induced supply chain crises are turning to software-defined satellites to unlock new business models, CEOs said at SATELLITE 2022’s “Scaling Up Satellite Manufacturing Capabilities” panel. Lisa […]

It’s all about the form factor. Flat panel antenna (FPA) is not a term widely loved in a competitive industry where everyone wants to brand their own technology — electronically […]

The war in Ukraine and the hack of Viasat’s KA-SAT network highlighted long-standing security concerns for LEO and MEO operators, speakers said at SATELLITE 2022’s “NGSO Mobile Connectivity Services at […]

Satellite operators are finding ways to compete and partner with the increasingly powerful telco ecosystem, speakers said at SATELLITE 2022. Stephane Pallez, CEO of Eutelsat’s subsidiary, noted that the operator […]

Laser or optical satellite communications is moving rapidly from laboratory curiosity to commercial reality, with multiple programs either already deployed or in advanced development, speakers said at SATELLITE 2022. Derek […]

Multi-mode data connectivity took a step closer to reality Monday, when Hughes Network Systems unveiled two new ground terminals at SATELLITE 2022. One integrates cellular 4G LTE signals with those from […]

The extraordinary diversity of the smallsat sector makes standards unlikely to solve ground system challenges, but many of the same objectives can be achieved through virtualization, ground tech experts said […]

The story of satellite communications is a tale of the search for more bandwidth. Physics defines the terrain of the search — communicating across the vast distances of space can […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is deciding how to incorporate space assets like new multi-orbit constellations of broadband communications satellites into its efforts to protect the country’s vital national […]

New Space is greedy for ground. Traditional Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites are stationary relative to the Earth — they hang at a fixed point in the sky and a […]

RESTON, VA — The U.S. satellite sector must embrace modern software design practices like agile and DevSecOps if America’s space efforts are to remain ahead of foreign competitors like China, […]

Ground systems technology is years behind the satellites it supports and catching up will require a fundamental transformation of the sector and interoperable standards, panelists at SATELLITE 2021 said. Stuart […]

Faced with a steady decline in the price of their basic commodity, satellite operators have turned to vertical integration to drive efficiency savings and capture more of the value chain, […]

The satellite industry was hit hard by pandemic supply chain crises including the worldwide microchip shortage, but executives at SATELLITE 2021 said the experience helped them re-imagine supplier relationships. Northrop […]

There are many factors driving the ballooning complexity of ground systems, but paradoxically one of them is customer desire for simplicity, speakers said at SATELLITE 2021. Jon Sala of Eutelsat […]

Smallsats, new orbits, and mega-constellations have revolutionized the satellite industry space segment in recent years. The pace of technological change has led some to question whether the ground segment can […]

A decade ago, large reinsurers were the first entrants from the insurance sector in the market for satellite Earth Observation (EO) imagery, according to Isabelle Flückiger, the program director for […]

Some of the most important and disruptive changes that the wave of LEO constellations will bring to the satellite business will be on the ground, rather than in orbit, experts […]

In a world where enterprises can rent not just additional computing power, but their entire IT network, Tokyo-based startup Infostellar is using that model by offering ground-station-as-a-service for the emerging […]

Finnish startup Iceye has big ambitions — the smallsat company wants to do for satellite imagery what IBM did for computing in the ‘80s. “We want to democratize the technology, […]

Agility was one aspect of New Space that On Orbit guests could agree on, as they put the hotly debated term under the microscope during a live podcast recording at […]

Space is getting more crowded, but the growing risk of a satellite colliding with orbital debris is what economists call “a tragedy of the commons” — it’s no one’s job […]

Facing competition from NewSpace entrants, satellite operators are moving to mixed-orbit models, executives said during the General Session at SATELLITE 2020 on Tuesday. SES President and CEO Steve Collar said: […]

The agency in the U.S. Department of Defense that buys commercial satellite services for the military is working on a new acquisition strategy to centralize and consolidate dealings with commercial […]

Satellite manufacturing giants touted their commitment to agile development and spending on new capabilities like on-orbit refueling at Tuesday’s closing session of SATELLITE 2020, painting a rosy picture of a […]