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Jan 14
SpaceX flies the same Falcon 9 booster 25 times, and what it means for Blue Origin
Between the imminent debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn and the seventh demo launch of SpaceX’s Starship, the team at SpaceX quietly hit a new


Jan 7
Italy’s Constellation Dilemma
The European Union is treating Italy’s consideration of a €1.5 billion ($1.6B) contract for secure Starlink services as a binary decision be

Dec 30, 2024
Analyzing Globalstar’s Go-Forward Strategy: Differentiation, Defense & DTD
Globalstar on Dec. 12 held its first investor day in years, bringing analysts and shareholders together to outline business priorities. Quil

Dec 18, 2024
Eutelsat OneWeb’s Transitional Constellation
Based on satellite design lives, OneWeb may need to replace half its fleet before IRIS2 enters service in 2030.

Dec 6, 2024
Telesat Lightspeed PDR puts constellation in line with other LEOs
Telesat Lightspeed experienced a cascading series of delays over the past seven years, mainly related to financing, but the project’s recent


Nov 13, 2024
SpaceX flight rate continues to climb
If SpaceX achieves VP of Flight Kiko Dontchev’s recently established goal of another 26 launches by the end of the year, the company will no


Nov 4, 2024
IRIS2 Survived. Now it will reshape Europe’s satcom sector
Constellations are never quick, and Europe’s IRISsup>2/sup> is no exception.

Oct 28, 2024
Evaluating SES’s case for a proliferated MEO constellation
On Oct. 21, United Launch Alliance began integrating its third Vulcan rocket on a mission that, if done this year, positions the company to


Oct 15, 2024
Dissecting Starlink’s V3 Constellation Application
On Oct. 11, SpaceX filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting to modify Starlink’s architecture and establish wh

Oct 9, 2024
Seeds for a new debris-removal industry
The Defense Department doles out study contracts in the six-to-seven figure range so often they are rarely worth mentioning in the grand sch

Oct 4, 2024
Understanding the satcom industry's newfound obsession with PACE
Military agencies have long been ideal customers for the satellite industry because of their willingness to pay a premium for resilient comm


Sep 26, 2024
Quilty’s takeaways from World Space Business Week
Every year at the perennial Paris pilgrimage, one or more trends emerge as the dominant theme of the show, and 2024 was no different.


Sep 5, 2024
A smallsat thruster shortage – how we got here
Supply chain fragility has been a perpetual challenge for the satellite industry, often centering on subsystems and components for which the


Aug 30, 2024
Starlink in aviation: where are its wings?
Over the past two years, Starlink has hit the maritime industry like a tsunami, swallowing up cruise line, yachts, and merchant vessels at s


Aug 14, 2024
OneWeb: New Ally in Multiorbit Comeback
It’s been a pretty miserable decade if you’re a GEO operator. The spectrum skirmishes over Ku and Ka-bands kicked things off, followed by a

Jul 22, 2024
An Airbus-TAS Space Merger: good, bad, or none of the above?
Press leaks on M&A discussions typically aren’t helpful (remember EchoStar’sa target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://spacen


Jun 25, 2024
No slowdown in Falcon 9 Starlink launches in 2025
A change in the winds of European defense spending


May 29, 2024
Telesat Lightspeed’s supply chain is becoming real
Telesat Lightspeed’s supply chain is becoming real


May 7, 2024
Will pLEO become a nation-state obsession?
In years past, small countries often financed geostationary satellites under the auspices of national sovereignty.


Apr 18, 2024
The changing winds of DTD
What started as a binary battle between DTD spectrum approaches is increasingly looking like an “and” rather than an “or” outcome.
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