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• Antennas, Payloads & other Components
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• Sovereign Constellation
• Proliferated LEO & Resilient Space Architectures (Starshield, PWSA, etc.)
• Missile Warning & Missile Defense Satellites
• ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance)
• Hypersonic & Space-Based Weapon Detection
• Space Logistics & On-Orbit Servicing
• Space Agency Initiatives (NASA, etc.)
Satellite Communications sector coverage includes:
• LEO Broadband
• Megaconstellations
• Direct to Device (DTD) & IoT
• Proliferated Constellations
• In-Flight Connectivity & Maritime
• Space-Based Relay & Optical Comms
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Understanding Starlink’s Dutch Financial Statement
Jul 15, 2025
Will the BEAD rule rewrite have a big impact on satellite operators?
Jun 12, 2025
Is smallsat manufacturing the next industry bubble?
May 5, 2025
In IFC, multi-orbit is losing to LEO only
Apr 21, 2025
Re-Arm Europe: Space Implications
Mar 21, 2025
Spacesail is growing. Is the West ready?
Feb 10, 2025
OneWeb: New Ally in Multiorbit Comeback
Jan 8, 2025
Eutelsat OneWeb’s Transitional Constellation
Dec 18, 2024
Breaking Down the DoD’s $13-Billion pLEO Play
Nov 18, 2024
IRIS2 Survived. Now it will reshape Europe’s satcom sector
Nov 4, 2024
Dissecting Starlink’s V3 Constellation Application
Oct 15, 2024
Quilty’s takeaways from World Space Business Week
Sep 26, 2024
The perils of going public too early
Aug 21, 2024
A New Benchmark for Launch Vehicle Robustness
Jul 30, 2024
What the Planet Layoffs Say about the State of Earth Observation
Jul 17, 2024
No slowdown in Falcon 9 Starlink launches in 2025
Jun 25, 2024
Europe’s Commercial Cargo Experiment Begins
May 22, 2024
VHR Imagery Coming into Focus with Maxar’s Legion Launch
May 8, 2024
Raytheon’s Strategic Pivot from Prime Time
Apr 25, 2024
Sierra Space goes for all orbits
Apr 8, 2024
Hiber Emerges from HibernatIoTn
Mar 26, 2024
OSAM-1 Fallout: Lessons from a Troubled Program
Mar 13, 2024
Will Japan’s defense export push elevate space?
Feb 26, 2024
KVH and the rough seas ahead for maritime satellite internet
Feb 15, 2024
OneWeb and a cardinal sin of space startups
Jan 29, 2024
A Tale of Two (Almost) SPACs
Jan 16, 2024
European space agency warns ‘no guarantee’ for Ariane in rocket launch market
Jan 8, 2024
Starlink’s RDOF Loss Could be a Catalyst for Change
Dec 31, 2023
Starlink is in 80 markets. Now what?
Dec 4, 2023
GEO-based hosted payloads to solve health and disaster prevention?
Nov 20, 2023
Europe’s Launch Fault Line Splits the Continent
Nov 7, 2023
Aalyria: A Darkhorse Candidate for OCT Kingmaker?
Oct 25, 2023
GEO Satellite vs. Fiber. No Comparison?
Oct 13, 2023
Viasat Debt Slips to High Yield Status
Oct 2, 2023
Rocket Lab Stock Fares Better Than Its Rocket
Sep 22, 2023
Starship Gets Ready to Rumble
Sep 8, 2023
Is that an Alarm or Just the Sound of a Familiar Tune? A closer look at SDA’s latest $1.5B Tranche 2 awards
Aug 21, 2023
Starlink and the Global Cruise Market
Jul 28, 2023
Voyager capitalizes on historic Prime Minister Modi visit
Jul 17, 2023
Envistacom's remaining assets go to auction
Jun 30, 2023
Palantir’s win: a boon for EO?
Jun 16, 2023
LeoStella’s plight shows how the U.S. is a hard market for European satellite manufacturers
Jun 8, 2023
Starlink satellites getting heavier to support DTD
May 30, 2023
Is the Space Force going more commercial?
May 8, 2023
Maxar is private. Who becomes the favorite now?
May 3, 2023
De-orbiting satellites to cost order of magnitude more than launching them
Apr 25, 2023
NASDAQ grants Astra 180-day extension
Apr 11, 2023
Another milsatcom program that forgot the ground segment
Mar 15, 2023
Voyager to acquire ZIN Technologies
Mar 13, 2023
Ocean-based launchpads, an old cure for a new problem?
Feb 25, 2023
Launcher abandons rocket plans in Vast acquisition
Feb 21, 2023
ILS CEO goes to Spaceflight
Feb 2, 2023
Astroforge seeks to revive asteroid mining, announces first two demo missions
Feb 1, 2023
SDA hopes SABRE sensors can slash missile testing costs by ‘millions’
Jan 23, 2023
A $316 million Falcon Heavy launch
Jan 14, 2023
Iridium Qualcomm partnership
Jan 5, 2023
Satellogic: revenue challenges, layoffs abound after SPAC
Jan 2, 2023
Firefly Lights a New Spark in the IPO Comeback
Jul 14, 2025
Why Europe’s IRIS² constellation is in trouble
May 30, 2025
Elon Musk’s Latest Unofficial Task Force
Apr 24, 2025
A new wave of national LEO constellations
Apr 11, 2025
Quilty Space’s Top Five Themes of Satellite 2025
Mar 18, 2025
Starlink – a Political Punching Bag, and an Opportunity for Competitors?
Feb 4, 2025
Italy’s Constellation Dilemma
Jan 7, 2025
Telesat Lightspeed PDR puts constellation in line with other LEOs
Dec 6, 2024
SpaceX flight rate continues to climb
Nov 13, 2024
Evaluating SES’s case for a proliferated MEO constellation
Oct 28, 2024
Seeds for a new debris-removal industry
Oct 9, 2024
A smallsat thruster shortage – how we got here
Sep 5, 2024
OneWeb: New Ally in Multiorbit Comeback
Aug 14, 2024
SDA needs a spiral development plan for user terminals
Jul 23, 2024
Broader Implications of Airbus’ Struggling Space Business
Jul 1, 2024
Rocket Lab, Synspective and the art of the multi-launch deal
Jun 24, 2024
Why Starlink’s foray into Indonesia is so important
May 20, 2024
Will pLEO become a nation-state obsession?
May 7, 2024
The changing winds of DTD
Apr 18, 2024
Telesat vs Starlink: a canary in the coal mine?
Apr 1, 2024
The theme of Satellite 2024: Direct to Device
Mar 25, 2024
India wants its own EO constellation: implications
Mar 8, 2024
Will high-volume space stations close the business case?
Feb 23, 2024
Rocket Lab returns to the M&A playground
Feb 9, 2024
And the Juggernaut Plows On…
Jan 24, 2024
Viasat Leasing Capacity for MENA Region
Jan 15, 2024
Space is Hard: Small Launch Chapter
Jan 3, 2024
A Quilty Space Insight: How Amazon Kuiper is Gearing up to Break the Bandwidth Bottleneck
Dec 14, 2023
Can Starship leapfrog early launcher challenges?
Nov 28, 2023
What Qualcomm’s decision says about the DTD Industry
Nov 14, 2023
Favoring Speed Over Performance: SES Moves Forward with mPower
Nov 2, 2023
Does Mongolia’s satcom surge signal freedom from China and Russia?
Oct 19, 2023
More VC Headwinds Likely
Oct 10, 2023
Blue Origin’s leadership shakeup: the change the company needs?
Sep 27, 2023
A Billion Reasons Left to Root for this NASA Initiative
Sep 14, 2023
Viasat goes 0 for 2 on successful satellites. Here are the impacts
Aug 25, 2023
A hypersonics deal with small launch on the side?
Aug 10, 2023
Is the ORCHESTRA NGSO Effort Ready to Call?
Jul 26, 2023
How China’s new rare element export rules may hurt the global space industry
Jul 5, 2023
What does Anduril’s solid motor gambit mean for space?
Jun 28, 2023
SES CEO Steve Collar announces sudden resignation
Jun 12, 2023
Earth observation company bags its first influencer
Jun 7, 2023
Why Europe never committed to satellite servicing until now
May 16, 2023
The Starlink of 2015 is here
May 5, 2023
The most important GEO launch of the year
May 1, 2023
2023 (so far) reaches decade+ low in GEO satellite orders
Apr 18, 2023
Brazil's Telebras is off the market
Apr 6, 2023
Does Kuiper have satcom’s Holy Grail?
Mar 14, 2023
The Unknown Unknowns of Starship
Mar 10, 2023
ULA’s rapid ramp up plans for Vulcan
Feb 24, 2023
Maxar and Umbra team up
Feb 14, 2023
EchoStar begins construction of new small satellite constellation
Feb 1, 2023
NATO’s space center for excellence moves forward
Jan 26, 2023
Ariane 6 schedule holding
Jan 17, 2023
Canon Electronics, IHI small launch venture still alive
Jan 6, 2023
Six space tugs for Transporter-6
Jan 3, 2023
For Eutelsat and France, sovereignty becomes about more than words
Jun 19, 2025
Starlink’s Crazy Launch Rate in Four Charts
May 21, 2025
Assessing Kuiper’s Satellite Manufacturing Delays
Apr 23, 2025
GEO bloodbath continues apace
Mar 31, 2025
Momentum builds for GEO satellite servicing
Feb 18, 2025
SpaceX flies the same Falcon 9 booster 25 times, and what it means for Blue Origin
Jan 14, 2025
Analyzing Globalstar’s Go-Forward Strategy: Differentiation, Defense & DTD
Dec 30, 2024
Why Small Launch Startups are Hot for Hypersonics
Nov 20, 2024
A new era of GPS competition
Nov 7, 2024
ULA’s quest to reset industry precedent
Oct 23, 2024
Understanding the satcom industry's newfound obsession with PACE
Oct 4, 2024
Starlink in aviation: where are its wings?
Aug 30, 2024
GEO Satellite Manufacturing Death Spiral?
Aug 7, 2024
An Airbus-TAS Space Merger: good, bad, or none of the above?
Jul 22, 2024
A Change in the Winds of European Defense Spending
Jun 27, 2024
Telesat Lightspeed’s supply chain is becoming real
May 29, 2024
DoD’s ULA Dilemma
May 15, 2024
DIU got a bucket of cash. Now what?
May 1, 2024
What does an NRO LEO constellation mean for the EO sector?
Apr 12, 2024
The (Laser) Shot Heard Around the World.
Mar 29, 2024
Major space players likely largest beneficiaries of Japan’s new $1T Yen fund
Mar 14, 2024
Continuing Resolutions and Sequestration Flashbacks
Feb 29, 2024
Regional plays for multi-orbit
Feb 23, 2024
Are China’s LEO constellations becoming real?
Feb 2, 2024
Sierra Space’s Return to LEO Constellations
Jan 17, 2024
The Long Road to Ovzon 3
Jan 10, 2024
Unwrapping the Space Sector Deal Outlook for 2024
Jan 2, 2024
GEO Satellite Orders for 2023: Indicative of New Trend?
Dec 8, 2023
DoD wants space ties with Indonesia. It won’t be that easy
Nov 20, 2023
Virgin Galactic vs. the Rocket Equation
Nov 14, 2023
The Dawn of Solid Rocket Motor Diversification
Oct 27, 2023
CLDP Teams Approach Halftime in Race to Replace the ISS
Oct 16, 2023
Space Norway satellite delays show how rough COVID hit Northrop Grumman
Oct 3, 2023
Maxar splits back into two business units, but stops short of calling them "SSL" and "DigitalGlobe"
Sep 22, 2023
The Last Mile for Momentus
Sep 8, 2023
Axiom raises $350M, but is it enough to fly?
Aug 24, 2023
Planet’s somewhat-predictable headcount reduction
Aug 1, 2023
Kuiper spending $10B on launch alone
Jul 19, 2023
Low GEO Orders are Here to Stay. Here’s What that Means.
Jul 3, 2023
The end of Eutelsat’s consumer internet business
Jun 19, 2023
Rivada CEO drops some financing crumbs ahead of RRB decision
Jun 9, 2023
Orbital tourism: three years of consistent demand
Jun 5, 2023
Viasat can thank Starlink, for once
May 9, 2023
Emirates to IFC providers: stop over-promising
May 5, 2023
Direct-to-Device (DTD) not a winner takes all
Apr 26, 2023
iSpace stock volatility amid Hakuto-R landing attempt
Apr 13, 2023
Axiom helping to "glow-up" NASA's spacesuit game
Mar 24, 2023
Starlink Reaches One Million Subscribers
Mar 14, 2023
IRIS2 schedule begins to slip
Mar 9, 2023
Is DoD finally warming to satellite services?
Feb 24, 2023
EU follows UK’s dubious pattern of scrutiny over Inmarsat-Viasat merger
Feb 13, 2023
SDA begins Tranche 2 bidding process
Feb 1, 2023
Growing interest for industrial biomedicine on the ISS
Jan 25, 2023
Interstellar Technologies raises $29.6M
Jan 15, 2023
Airbus Poland Satellite deal
Jan 6, 2023
Viasat’s unexpected Link-16 sale
Jan 3, 2023
