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Odysseus Space CEO Jordan Vannitsen argues that laser communication is the missing infrastructure layer that will turn isolated satellite constellations into connected, distributed computing systems in orbit.
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United Teleports CEO Ricardo Dias argues the Ha'Ela teleport strike expanded the threat model for every ground segment operator. The $54 billion ground segment market has invested in cyber resilience but barely addressed kinetic threats.
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Legacy satellite operators aren't mourning geostationary orbit. They're stripping it for parts. The transition is expensive, legally contentious, and — if you look at the earnings — working.
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On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, IEC Telecom Group officially launched its first operations center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The expansion establishes the company as an authorized Starlink reseller in the […]
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On Friday, February 27, 2026, the Southern Pacific Aero-Defense Alliance (SPADA) officially announced its formation as a new regional nonprofit aimed at unifying the aerospace and defense (A&D) industrial base […]
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On February 24, 2026, Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) announced the launch of the Iridium 9604, a compact hardware solution designed to unify satellite, cellular, and positioning services. The module […]
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Chris Forrester — There were more than a few episodes of Star Trek when seemingly Mr Spock would tell Captain Kirk of that week’s challenge that the life form wasn’t […]
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February 16, 2026 — Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and the University of Tokyo have been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to lead a major research and development project […]
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February 16, 2026 — LMT Group and Spanish satellite operator Sateliot have launched a 12-month joint initiative with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a universal dual-mode IoT module. […]
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Novaspace Partner Nathan De Ruiter presented staggering figures. Opening the floor with an exclusive forecast, he predicted that 70,000 small satellites launching over the next decade will represent an investment of roughly $134 billion. Yet the mechanism for getting those satellites’ data back to Earth remains archaic, fragmented, and dangerously slow. We have entered the era of the Data Trap, where terabytes of potential insight perish in orbit because the physical pipe to the ground is too narrow.
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