Via Satellite

Back for the third year, Via Satellite recognizes a new class of 25 Rising Stars — a group of young professionals shaping the future of the space and satellite industry. These 25 young professionals nominated by their colleagues are making significant contributions to their companies — whether that’s in engineering, policy and regulation, business development, and more...

Over the last half century, space-based assets have helped to provide terrestrial users with ubiquitous services like broadband communications and position, navigation and timing (PNT). But although we think of these services as space-based, they don’t actually work in space — especially not in the area between Earth orbit and the Moon known as cislunar space, that is the new...

There’s no escaping the three-body problem—not in physics, but in project management. The classic constraints always apply: good, fast, cheap. Except in space, where there’s a fourth variable: flexibility.

Today, smallsat manufacturing is experiencing an industrial revolution. Manufacturers across the globe are investing billions in state-of-the-art facilities and adva...

There is a familiar point in almost every spacecraft program when somebody finally asks where the heat is supposed to go.

By then, the structure is complete, the electronics have colonised every available surface, the payload has acquired another few hundred watts of “essential” capability, and the spacecraft has been declared impressively compact by everyone who will ...

For decades, military space was the business of a few select nations. Reconnaissance and secure communications rested on a handful of exquisite, school-bus-sized satellites that had exquisite capabilities but likewise exquisite prices, in assets so scarce that the loss of a single one could blind an entire program. The war in Ukraine has accelerated the unravelling of that mo...