Better Satellite World - SSPI

Joe Hiscock and his son look forward each year to hunting on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Their cabin is 35 miles from the nearest road and accessible only […]

It can literally be a line in the sand or a fence made of concertina wire. A guard outpost on a busy road. A strip of unoccupied beach. A patch […]

Poverty and distance are the enemies of health. In the rich world, high-quality medical care is usually a short drive away, because there are three physicians available, on average, to serve […]

For most of us, slavery is a horror of the past. It is a current reality, however, in more than 100 countries around the planet. The Walk Free Foundation estimates […]

SSPI has launched a campaign to tell the human side of the satellite story. We call it "Better Satellite World."

The FIFA World Cup is the planet’s most widely viewed sporting event. The 2010 World Cup held in South Africa was broadcast to 204 countries on 245 different channels. The […]

In 1988, a meeting of the World Health Assembly set a mind-boggling goal: to eradicate the ancient scourge of polio. At the time the goal was set, the polio virus […]

As global water scarcity intensifies, satellite technology is playing a critical role in water management, monitoring, and conservation.

When you start your car in the morning or cook your dinner at night, chances are a satellite is helping you do it. We depend on fossil fuels pulled from […]

In 2003 the World Bank issued an RFP to create a communications network with an ambitious mission: to begin the long process to reunite a nation whose history had left […]

The next time you complain about your telecommunications bill think about this: only 40 percent of the world’s population is online. Why? Cost. In developing nations broadband costs about one […]