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Chris Bellant is an operations planner for the International Space Station (ISS) by day, but by night, he’s the executive director for the Mars Initiative. Through this nonprofit, he’s able...

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) has decided to take the satellite community a little bit down memory lane. One of the most charismatic speakers we have seen at the...

Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer, who leads one of the world’s largest global satellite operator businesses, says he expects meaningful consolidation among satellite communications companies to happen soon — and that...

Intelsat recently made the news with its acquisition of Gogo‘s Commercial Aviation division. The deal vertically integrates the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) business with service provider and satellite operator, which will...

Sometimes timing is everything. Yesterday, Swarm Technologies saw its first 12 satellites successfully launched. So, naturally, Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversation goes to California and we talk to Swarm Technologies...

Intelsat has agreed to acquire Gogo’s Commercial Aviation business for $400 million in cash, the operator announced late Monday. Gogo provides In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) to more than 3,000 commercial aircraft,...

Victor Stephanopoli is the COO of MzansiSat, South Africa’s first private prospective satellite operator focusing on telecom. The company focuses on the South African market, and aims to deploy Geostationary...

For an industry that aims to go where no one has gone before, space and satellite has an imagination problem. You are probably familiar with the 2018 report from Morgan...

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, Mark chats with Chris Johnson, president of Boeing Satellite Systems. They talk about the Johnson family’s quest to watch all of the Marvel movies...

A report this month by a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) in the U.S....