Author: Robert Bell

For at least two decades, there has been rising recognition and concern about a problem for our industry. Not a little problem. A big, hairy bodacious problem that could put...

Thanks to Starlink and OneWeb, broadband from the sky dominates the view of the satellite data business for both the industry and the public. It’s all about hundreds of Mbps...

The longer you live, the more you realize how much of the world’s life takes place in the shadows. They are not good places, the shadows. It’s where warlords grow...

Do you ever pause to consider what’s behind the everyday world you inhabit? Have you wondered who built the bridge you are driving over, what’s going on inside your phone...

Have you ever been really, really thirsty?  Not just dry-mouthed in the middle of the night or longing for a cold drink after an afternoon in the sun. But truly...

A few short years ago, the question posed by that title would have been laughable. How could the future of the internet – with its 997 terabits per second of...

For all of its history, the satellite industry has been a business of niches. Broadcasting, maritime, energy, internet, cellular backhaul, military and civilian government. If you’ve been around a while,...

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” So wrote the Lebanese poet and artist Kahil Gibran. I was of a generation that read...

The economist Herbert Stein once wrote, “If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.” The question, of course, is when.  It can be an exasperating question.  Human beings have...

The space business needs to recruit more people who know less. Strange, right?  The global pandemic dramatized how important skills are to personal economic progress. As states and countries locked...