SSPI Names CEO of Hellas Sat and Projects of Speedcast and UltiSat as Recipients of the 2021 Better Satellite World Awards

London, UK,  November 18, 2021– he Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced today the recipients of the seventh annual Better Satellite World Awards. The awards honour established companies along with disruptive innovators who make the world a more prosperous, healthier, better-educated, sustainable and inclusive home for humankind. An international jury selected Hellas Sat Founder and CEO and humanitarian Christodoulos Protopappas, Speedcast and Willka Yachay’s project to bring satellite connectivity to the Q’eros tribe in Peru and UltiSat’s services for the UN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to receive this year’s awards.

The recipients will be honoured at the Better Satellite World Awards Virtual Celebration on 9 December and a live reception on 10 January 2022 in London.

“In a time of profound disruption and crises at nearly every level of human society, the space and satellite community is providing indispensable support and relief to remediate suffering and to improve and preserve what is best in human culture,” said SSPI Director of Development and Innovation Louis Zacharilla. “Most important, it is pushing us toward a time when things inevitably will get better,” he added.

The selection of the recipients for the Better Satellite World Awards was made by an international jury consisting of a broad cross-section of industry thought leaders and distinguished professionals.

Also at the Celebration, the SSPI UK Chapter will present its sixth annual Satellite Personality of the Year Award to Volodymyr Levykin, Founder and CEO of Skyrora for his many contributions both personally and through the company to Edinburgh’s robust and growing satellite industry.

The Better Satellite World Awards Celebration is produced by SSPI and its UK and Isle of Man Chapters.