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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new age of information and the applications for the satellite industry are vast. AI can generate efficiencies throughout the satellite life cycle, from...

  “It’s completely insane to give up on video.”    A bold statement from Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer on the satellite Direct-to-Home (DTH) video market, which he calls the bread...

At SATELLITE 2019, which seems like an age ago, Klaus Bruun Egeberg, head of Mobility and Connectivity at shipping company Maersk, gave an intriguing presentation about the potential future relationship...

It has been quite a year in the satellite industry with major news involving some of the biggest names such as OneWeb and Intelsat. In this roundtable discussion, Via Satellite...

“Balloons are the future of connectivity.” What sounds like a line torn straight out of a Thomas Pynchon steampunk novel is actually the core mission statement of Loon, the Google/Alphabet...

“It’s a satellite terminal that behaves like a mobile phone.” This is how Robert Bell, executive director of the World Teleport Association (WTA) describes a successful modern-day Earth Station in...

A few years ago, Ursa Space Systems’ first customer called the company with a problem. Ursa had delivered a geospatial data image to the customer, but the customer wasn’t able...

As I write this, we are now just over three months into the COVID-19 pandemic which has changed everyone’s lives significantly. While lockdown conditions are starting to ease, there is...

The pictures in Northern Italy resembled a war zone. The hospitals were over-run. The body count was stacking up. People could not say goodbye to their loved ones and the...

“It was like driving 100 miles per hour through an intersection and getting blindsided by a truck.” This is how one of the 88 former Bigelow Aerospace employees describes being...