5G – Real Satcom Opportunity or Trojan Horse?
The next set of standards ruling mobile networks, 5G, has the potential to change the way we interact and perceive the world to make it a digital experience.
IFC Markets: Money Left on the Table?
The largest commercial airlines offer inflight connectivity on some portion of their aircraft. In fact, most of them have some form of connectivity in service or under contract across their fleet, if not on the majority of their aircraft.
Space Startups & Funding: What Recipe for Success?
Startups in the space industry continue to emerge across the value chain, from space infrastructure capabilities to downstream services, targeting new approaches to compete with incumbents and broaden the market.
Salvaging Future Intelsat 29e’s
The “Total loss” of a satellite like Intelsat 29e, just 3 years into its 15-year life, has 2 significant implications: the sunk cost of the satellite, in addition to over 12 years of potential revenues and 6,552 kg of uncooperative debris roaming uncontrolled in geostationary orbit.
The Impact of Capacity Pricing on M&A and Investment Decisions
The satcom industry today relies on five major elements – Pricing (competition), Supply (indicating Asset worth), Demand (Growth), Break-even pricing (manufacturing innovation) and Ground System (efficiencies). While the economics of demand growth and ground system efficiencies have been proven to be more linear in the last several years, the same cannot be said for Supply.