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Interview With AvL CTO Chris Rose at SATShow Week
AvL Technologies CTO Chris Rose shares his perspective on the evolution of tactical fly-away systems in this interview from the AvL booth during SATShow Week. “A lot of the missions that have classically been done by large antenna systems are now able to be accomplished with small antenna systems. Our user community, largely the military,…
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Interview With Qorvo Director of Satcom & Systems Engineering Ryan Jennings at SATShow Week
Qorvo Director of Satcom & Systems Engineering Ryan Jennings talks with Via Satellite during SATShow Week about Qorvo’s radio frequency (RF) solutions, ranging from phased arrays onboard LEO satellites to consumer phased array terminals. “People want connectivity, and they really don’t care how,” Jennings says about the multi-orbit evolution and the importance of terminals that…
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Interview With Kepler Chief Revenue Officer Beau Jarvis at SATShow Week
In this SATShow Week interview, Kepler Communications Chief Revenue Officer Beau Jarvis talks about the company’s approach to solving the problem of downlinking data collected in space down to Earth. Kepler is building an optical data relay network to effectively deliver real-time downlink to its customers. Earlier this year, Kepler launched the first tranche of…
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We got an audience with the “Lunar Viceroy” to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
At the end of a long day on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman looked down at a table littered with microphones and jokingly referred to the space agency’s new Moon base manager, Carlos Garcia-Galan, as the “Lunar Viceroy.” It was a bit of humor, but it also seemed to represent affection from Isaacman for a…
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Here is NASA’s plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
NASA’s announcement Tuesday that it will “pause” work on a lunar space station and focus on building a surface base on the Moon was no big surprise to anyone paying attention to the Trump administration’s space policy. But what should NASA do with hardware already built for the Gateway outpost? NASA spent close to $4.5…
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Bridgit Mendler Outlines Northwood’s Vision for Rapidly Deployable Ground Infrastructure
Bridgit Mendler detailed how she and the team at Northwood Space are working to solve the “gnarly problem” of satellite ground infrastructure by developing an end-to-end ground system built for rapid deployment. “There will continue to be exponentially more spacecraft going up into orbit,” she said. “We’re going to lose track of that if the…
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D2D, Sovereign Demand, and Mega-Valuations: Space Leaders Navigate Market Volatility
The majority of SATShow attendees polled at the start of Wednesday’s General Session indicated that the space industry’s outlook was too uncertain to assess, while others considered the current climate “great.” A panel of experts across different segments of the space industry assessed the biggest forces shaping the space market right now, led by Karen…
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Investors Debate IPO Path, Financing Routes Needed to Grow Space Market
The way the commercial space sector is financed needs to catch up with the huge advances industry has made in its capabilities, venture capitalists at a SATShow business panel said March 24. From an investment point of view, the space sector is undergoing the first throes of maturation, with the arrival of major players like…
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Sovereign Satcom Networks Grapple With Data Security Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
Nations are seeking stronger control over their own communications architectures. But how to define what sovereign space means, and what it can do within a more geopolitically complex space infrastructure, is still an evolving discussion. The answer to what defines “space sovereignty” remains somewhat blurry. For example, the U.S. government is considered to have complete…
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SpaceX launches batch of Starlink satellites from the West Coast
The Starlink 17-17 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 26, 2026. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet service Thursday. Liftoff of the Starlink 17-17 mission occurred at 4:03:19 p.m. PDT (7:03:19 p.m. EDT / 230319: UTC). The mission was originally scheduled for March…