The commercial space sector faces an escalating talent crunch for experienced, flight-proven engineers, forcing satellite and aerospace companies to rethink compensation, recruit from adjacent tech sectors and invest in internal training.
Britain’s new space strategy aims to strengthen sovereign capabilities, defense resilience and commercial growth while confronting gaps in launch, PNT, government expertise and its continued dependence on international partners.
Dr. David Voss of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center explores why mission architectures matter, how resilience is truly achieved in real-world operations, and what becomes possible as the space community advances toward a more connected, interoperable future.
Orion Space Solutions’ Chad Fish explains the real constraints, sensing challenges, and operational shifts that define modern VLEO missions – and what teams discover only when they start designing this low.
Europe’s push for sovereign space capabilities is driving increased investment while forcing satellite vendors to become more selective about where they compete and how they position their offerings.
Satellite direct-to-device startup Elveo Mobile, the result of the merger of Lynk Global and Omnispace, has selected Apex Space’s “Factory X” satellite-production model to produce Elveo’s initial 320-satellite constellation at a dedicated factory using Lynk IP.
How The Gentlemen ransomware group’s breach of a technology supplier exposed sensitive aerospace and defense data, highlighting the growing cyber risks posed by third-party vendors and interconnected space industry supply chains.
As AI, cloud computing and cyber threats accelerate the pace of network operations, satellite communications must embrace software-defined, interoperable architectures to keep pace with modern defense and commercial requirements.
The ground segment is rapidly shifting toward software-defined, cloud-enabled and automated systems that give satellite operators greater scalability, flexibility and efficiency as missions expand from large constellations to the Moon.
Dr. Kelly Backes of MITRE explores how advances in quantum sensing, timing and navigation could strengthen the security and resilience of future space systems, and why the industry needs to start preparing now.
IURUS Consulting’s Jesús Bernal Allende explores how autonomous spacecraft are challenging traditional approaches to liability, oversight and licensing, pushing regulators toward new frameworks for accountability in an increasingly algorithmic orbital environment.
NATO allies are pursuing federated schemes for pooling satcom resources. The enabler is not the satellites themselves, but the network that will make the multination, multi-orbit dream work. From the ground up, interoperability and common standards are the first principles for future hybrid satcom.
Space industry leaders look ahead to 2027, when scaling launch, infrastructure, manufacturing and sovereign capabilities will put execution to the test.
Kat Hickey and Federico Trovarelli of Novaspace explore how orbital sustainability is evolving from an environmental concern into a business imperative shaping investment, regulation, spacecraft design and operations.
Live from the show floor of Smallsat, Constellations is joined by Jonas Åslund and Viktor Pankov of SSC Space, who dive into one of the most important shifts happening across the sector: the emergence of a new space infrastructure built on global ground networks.
Dr. Kelly Backes of MITRE discusses how the space industry can prepare for the quantum era and which technologies have the greatest impact on the security and resilience of future space systems.
