As orbital activity accelerates, the challenge for space situational awareness is shifting from collecting more data to ensuring its accuracy, interoperability and trustworthiness through advanced data fusion and greater collaboration among operators, governments and commercial providers.
Orion Space Solutions President Gregg Burgess discusses the architectural, operational and legacy-system challenges facing the U.S. Space Force as it works to integrate space capabilities across air, land, sea and cyber domains to support faster, more effective military operations.
A €35B, five‑year military space push starting this year is accelerating partnerships between primes and New Space firms. Priority programs like SatcomBw Stage 4—alongside Europe’s Iris2—are competing for talent and testing how fast Germany’s space ecosystem can scale.
ABI Research’s Rachel Kong examines how a SpaceX IPO could reshape the satellite industry, accelerating investment in next-generation constellations, direct-to-device services, orbital computing, and the convergence of satellite, telecom, cloud and AI ecosystems.
DIFI PlugFest USA 2026 will test the latest version of the DIFI standard in more realistic, end-to-end network environments, helping advance interoperability, certification and digital transformation across next-generation multi-orbit satcom systems.
At the 2026 Satellite Show, Constellations spoke with Blane Boynton of SES, Andrew Cavalier of ABI Research and Greg Quiggle of Kratos about developing long term 5G NTN strategies, the competitive forces driving ground system evolution and how early 5G implementations signal growing commercial readiness.
Heather Pringle of Space Foundation explores how emerging technologies, cross sector collaboration and evolving mission design are shaping strategic advantage as activity expands into cislunar and deep space environments.
NASA is accelerating its return-to-the-Moon strategy by relying more heavily on commercial transportation and logistics as competition with China intensifies. Long-term success in cislunar space will depend less on any single technology and more on the ability to integrate transportation, communications, autonomy, power and surface infrastructure into a sustainable lunar ecosystem.
As direct-to-device satellite services move toward commercial scale, operators, regulators and mobile carriers are grappling with how spectrum rights, licensing frameworks and cross-border interference will shape the future of global connectivity. How hybrid use of terrestrial and MSS spectrum is emerging as the most practical path forward, even as questions around sovereignty, regulation and customer control remain unresolved.
