Author: Shaun Waterman

LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I’m not standing...

LOS ANGELES — MITRE, the federal contractor that runs R&D labs for the U.S. government, is developing a space cyber lab where real satellite hardware and software can be tested to ensure...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer...

The ground segment is experiencing tectonic shifts in the marketplace with emerging technology and new business models. These conversations were front and center at SATELLITE 2022. In this article, Shaun...

After emerging from pandemic-induced supply chain crises, satellite manufacturers are turning to software-defined satellites to open the possibility of new business models and glean more data about performance, the CEOs...

It’s all about the form factor. Flat panel antenna (FPA) is not a term widely loved in a competitive industry where everyone wants to brand their own technology — electronically...

The war in Ukraine, and the hack of Viasat’s KA-SAT network, has highlighted the long-standing geopolitical reality for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) operators who serve government and...

The high bandwidth inter-satellite data links made possible by laser-based optical communications technology will revolutionize the satellite ecosystem, and enable a new generation of autonomous vehicles in orbit, a SATELLITE...

Major satellite operators continue to wrestle with their transformation from a mature industry focused on broadcast delivery of regionalized TV services, into a fast-growing, constantly transforming slice of the global...

Multi-mode data connectivity took a step closer to reality Monday, when Hughes Network Systems unveiled two new ground terminals at SATELLITE 2022. One integrates cellular 4G LTE signals with those from...