Millennium Space Systems announces it has completed the development of and shipped its first ALTAIR™ satellite, a pre-production pathfinder spacecraft designed to demonstrate advanced avionics, guidance & control, additive manufacturing, […]
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Being an astronaut takes teamwork, resiliency, a strong awareness of self and others, and perseverance – skills that also are necessary to succeed in life. So, NASA and 4-H are […]
Sessions weighs in on NASA transition, astronauts float Doug Cooke for administrator
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump’s pick for attorney general “heavily influenced” the makeup of the NASA transition team to favor SLS.
Beauchamp: Military satcom resiliency will rely on more commercial, international partnerships
The solution to making military space communications secure could be more. More satellites. More partners. More bandwidth. More everything.
Q&A | Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on shifts in government demand, Global Xpress and Inmarsat 6
The advent of new high-throughput systems, growing acceptance of commercial input for space situational awareness, and a surprise U.S. election outcome are all pieces of the shifting industry landscape at a time when the U.S. government is actively preparing for its next iteration of satellite communications.
What a Trump administration means for space
A space policy of the administration of President-elect Donald Trump is likely to focus more on human spaceflight, technology development and commercialization, and less on Earth science.
Q&A | Intelsat General’s Skot Butler on EpicNG and selling bandwidth to DoD
Skot Butler recently replaced the plain-spoken Kay Sears, who finished her 10-year tenure at the tail end of a decline in U.S. government bandwidth spending that tracks the military’s shrinking footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan. Butler now gets a chance to come in at a trough and build, rather than manage a decline, as Sears had to do.
Loverro: defense is the best deterrent against a war in space
The U.S. must rely on defense rather than offense in deterring a space war, one of the Pentagon’s top space officials said Friday.
Gogo: North American market will be awash in Ku-band in 2020
In-flight connectivity provider Gogo Inc. on Sept. 29 presented a relentlessly optimistic view of its future, saying per-aircraft revenue will double within five years and competitors’ catch-up attempts — including Viasat’s monster Ka-band satellites and Inmarsat’s air-to-ground service in Europe — are minor drive-by attractions.
The growing imperative of commercialization
Globalization has made the world a smaller place, with people, goods and services crossing borders with ease unimagined by earlier generations. Much of this globalization is enabled by space-based capabilities, and specifically satellite communications capabilities.