EO Smallsat Market: Where to Go from Here?

These days, smallsats generate a lot of attention, from players raising millions of dollars, losing millions of dollars, or providing thousands of images to spy on Iranian oil smugglers.  Among the attention and potential, it is fair to say that the overall picture of the emerging EO smallsat market is sending mixed signals.  Smallsat operators,.

Will Software-Defined Satellites Take Off?

In recent years, satellite operators have busied themselves finding new ways to deliver cost-competitive connectivity in response to evolving consumer demand and price expectations. On the satellite design side, this encompasses new architectures, multiple forms of heightened risk taking, and adoption of low or no heritage technologies. SES is pushing this process even further with.

NSR Report: Satellite Ground Segment to Generate $162 Billion in Next Decade

HTS Deployments & Key Verticals Make Ground Segment a Key Driver for Satellite Industry Return to Growth Cambridge, MA  – NSR’s Commercial Satellite Ground Segment, 3rd Edition report, released today, forecasts annual global revenues for the Commercial Satellite Ground Segment will grow to $15.71 billion by 2027. Set top boxes (STBs) and antennas capture the.

The new space race is all about satellites: Pros and cons of each orbit

NSR quoted in Stewart Sanders’ The Next Web (TNW) article “The new space race is all about satellites”: Pros and cons of each orbit: Pros — Their close distance enables low latency broadband delivery, with levels comparable to the performance of fiber transmission. This kind of fiber-like performance will become even more important as satellite capacity growth.