ST Engineering iDirect today announced USSI Global as the recipient of its Excelerator Collaboration Partner of the Year award at the NAB Show 2025. The award recognizes USSI Global’s exceptional ability in creating demand, driving business growth and exceeding customer satisfaction through its partnership with ST Engineering iDirect, underscoring their shared commitment to delivering impactful solutions for mutual success.
Neo Space Group (NSG), a Public Investment Fund (PIF) company and Saudi Arabia’s leading commercial space services provider, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with G&S SatCom, a leading satellite solutions provider, to implement G&S SatConnect® - a cutting-edge, cloud-based, real-time monitoring platform. This collaboration will support NSG’s Network Operations Centre (NOC), ensuring 24/7 monitoring and proactive management of its in-flight connectivity (IFC) services.
Space logistics and orbital transportation comapny D-Orbit, and Planetek Group, a provider of Earth Observation (EO), geospatial analytics, and mission software, announce a strategic business combination (merger) during an event held at the Sala degli Arazzi of the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, in the presence of Minister Adolfo Urso.
Space consulting and market intelligence firm Novaspace has unveiled a new offering: the Major Space Programs Tracker. This report debuts with a spotlight on a defining trend across the global space industry—an accelerating shift toward iterative tranche—and layer-based satellite deployment strategies.
The April 2025 issue of the Satellite Executive Briefing is now available. Featuring:
With all of the activity and associated hype of broadband LEO constellations, one wonders if there is anything left to say about GEO satellites and applications. I chose Old Faithful, that amazing geyser in Yellowstone National Park, as the theme for this article because it, like dependable geostationary platforms, can be relied upon to simply do its thing. Old Faithful is powered by natural causes much the way that a GEO converts sunlight into dependable services to and by fixed positions on the earth.
For 30 million years, the North and South Poles have been kingdoms of ice and snow. But today, there is nowhere on Earth more at risk from climate change. The Antarctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Arctic temperatures are rising even faster.
We all know the story. The days when broadcast TV is delivered by satellite are numbered. Pay-TV households in the US declined 31 percent, from 84 million in 2019 to 58 million by the end of 2023, according to Statista. While the decline was offset by growth in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA, Ampere Analysis predicts that this situation will change, as the industry experiences the first-ever annual decline in global pay TV penetration.
Space has become a new defense domain that enables more traditional defense domains with communications, observation, navigation, and less applications. As it became critical, contested, and congested new threats and solutions have emerged in a newer faster race.
Advancing Military Defense and Space Security
Defense and government have always been significant markets for the satellite industry, and if anything, that significance is increasing. In the US in particular, this is partially due to the increasingly close cooperation and integration of commercial players into the Department of Defense (DoD) strategy. In addition, in response to current geopolitical tensions and events around the world, globally, defense spending is on the rise. At the same time, more regions and nations are prioritizing independent defense strategies, rather than rely on cooperation with others.
