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APSCC President Terry Bleakley discusses Asia Pacific market opportunities and how satellite can become more relevant to telcos.

Constellations spoke with Mike Kaplan, Vice President of Business Development at LeoStella, about the extraordinary growth driven by new smallsat capabilities, the innovation occurring between commercial and government markets, and manufacturing challenges of building to scale.

The 2023 edition of the “Space Environment Report” published by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a gradual adoption of practices including end-of-life disposal of satellites. But it also shows that far too many operators in low Earth orbit — below 2,000 kilometers — are doing either nothing or too little to remove their spacecraft from these increasingly crowded orbital highways.

On-orbit capacity is growing rapidly, according to the 2023 State of the Satellite Industry Report. Space is more affordable, but will demand keep up with supply?

A new malware strain was discovered by the threat research firm Adlumin with supposed implications for the U.S. aerospace sector. The malicious script, dubbed PowerDrop, was “implanted in the network” of an unnamed U.S. aerospace defense contractor.

Constellations spoke with Christian Patouraux, CEO and Founder, Kacific about delivering low-cost satellite broadband to connect and change the lives of the underserved and vulnerable in some of the most difficult to reach areas of the Asia Pacific.

GEO operators Intelsat and Optus bought out SpaceLogistics’ next-generation satellite life-extension devices amid an evolution in the market for in-space services.

Virginia Tech researchers are developing an infrastructure for interconnectivity among constellations with implications for the future of space networking.

In a June 20 presentation here to the Seradata Space Conference, a conference in which insurance underwriters and brokers are heavily represented, Benhamou described a situation that has been true for several years. And when he referred to “dependency,” he meant not just satellite owners, but insurers as well.