On Orbit

In this webcast, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Business Operations Casey Swails is joined by speakers from Voyager Space, Spaceflight, Loft Orbital, and BCG for a discussion about how private businesses, industries, civil space agencies, government organizations, and commercial space companies form strategic partnerships and collaborate with each other to accomplish a mission. Host Jeffr...

One of the most exciting things about the satellite industry is exploring how satellite can be used to improve life on Earth. Iridium and the Smithsonian have worked together on a particularly interesting example of that, tracking wildlife. The Smithsonian has an initiative called Movement of Life , that tracks the movement of certain species. The organization recently partnered with Iridium to us...

The second episode of On Orbit's Future Space Economy webcast features Sidus Space Founder and CEO Carol Craig, Kepler CEO Mina Mitry, Orbit Fab CDO Jeremy Schiel, SpaceRyde CEO Sohrab Haghighat, and BCG's Sita Sonty in a discussion about financing, building, and networking complex infrastructure in space.  The Future Space Economy is, at its core, a massive infrastructure building project consist...

The space industry is in a race for talent, to hire bright and innovative people to propel companies forward to meet their bold growth projections. While working in the space industry used to be a more insular career path, the industry's rapid expansion with new startups and technologies is driving a push to bring more people into the industry's workforce. Executives have been open about feeling t...

This is the very first episode of the On Orbit Podcast's new "Future Space Economy" educational series – designed to educate audiences about the opportunities, challenges, risks, and rewards of expanding economic activity off-world. This webcast series will highlight specific activities in space, ranging from healthcare, research, mining, tourism, and energy. In this debut episode, titled "The Nex...

A wave of capital investment has poured into new space companies over the past few years, as investors searched for the next big disruptive space technology. It's not yet known if the fragile state of today's global economy has slowed this momentum. Do investors remain as hungry for space startups as they were five to 10 years ago? Are investors being more cautious and selective as they navigate t...

The relationship between satellite operators and cellular wireless carriers has always been complicated, vacillating between being close business partners, fierce competitors, and regulatory rivals. Though dwarfed in size by its cellular wireless peers, satellite operators have endured and maintained a relatively stable co-existence in the telecommunications family.  However, something has changed...

World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) has wrapped up in Paris capping off what has been a very busy summer for the satellite industry. Via Satellite Managing Editor Rachel Jewett attended the week-long event , covering a number of executive panel sessions for the magazine's e-newsletter. She joins us on the On Orbit podcast to outline the key takeaways from the conference and what she learned behin...

On this episode of the On Orbit podcast,  Orbital Sidekick  Founder and CEO Dan Katz joins us to talk about the souped-up Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) constellation his company is launching to help global industry and government customers achieve their sustainability goals.   Hyperspectral imagery is yet another product of the rapid evolution of satellite data collection tech...

On this episode of the On Orbit podcast,  Orbital Sidekick  Founder and CEO Dan Katz joins us to talk about the souped-up Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) constellation his company is launching to help global industry and government customers achieve their sustainability goals.   Hyperspectral imagery is yet another product of the rapid evolution of satellite data collection tech...

Spaceflight has shipped its brand new fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicle to Cape Canaveral for launch on  SpaceX 's Falcon 9 and signed a deal with Arianespace to launch on Vega missions as soon as next year. Spaceflight CEO Curt Blake joined us on the podcast to talk about what these latest versions of Sherpa can do and the challenges of delivering satellites beyond LEO to trans...

News coverage of extreme weather events and flooding has brought climate change to the forefront of public consciousness. As this flooding displaces and endangers life on Earth and causes trillions of dollars worth of damage to the larger economy, the flood insurance industry finds itself on the forefront of a serious problem that requires it to evolve the way it utilizes data quickly to save both...

In order to have meaningful access to space to meet the demand for launch services, the world needs more spaceports and launch centers. British and European launch services could also use new spaceports. Flying payloads to launch facilities across the ocean in French Guiana or the United States can get expensive. Because of the war in Ukraine, Russia is no longer a viable option. In this episode o...

In this episode of Via Satellite's On Orbit Podcast, John Deere's Industry 4.0 lead Kiel Ronning joins us to talk about how his company is working to solve the global food shortage crisis through technology and education. John Deere is a trusted brand among farmers, who rely on the company to provide insights on crop yield efficiency and productivity. To fully utilize the tools that John Deere pro...

On this special episode of On Orbit, government satellite technology program directors from the United States, United Kingdom, and Argentina join us to explain how they are working directly with commercial providers to get connectivity directly in the hands of enterprise, civil service, and military end users. During this conversation, we interview Dr. Daniel Massey, Operation 5G to NextG lead for...

You may not realize it, but the distance between Low-Earth Orbit, where most small satellites reside, and Geostationary Orbit, where nearly all of the much larger satellites live, is pretty significant. At more than 21,000 miles above LEO, GEO is a challenging orbit for smallsats to reach and maintain effective operations.  Believing that there is a viable and profitable future for smallsats in GE...

On this episode of On Orbit, we welcome the grand prize winner of the 2022 Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest, Dr. Luisa Buinhas. She is the co-founder of Vyoma Space , a space debris mitigation technology company based in Germany. With a background in aerospace engineering specialized in space mission design and maneuver optimization, Buinhas leads the development of Vyoma's space program i...

After a short break following the SATELLITE 2022 conference, Via Satellite's On Orbit podcast returns with a very special interview with two of Argentina's top science and technology government officials. Argentina's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Daniel Filmus and his colleague Matías Kulfas, Argentina's Minister of Productive Development , join On Orbit host Jeffrey Hill to expla...

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia demolished the foundation of the world's geopolitical and financial structure by commencing a military invasion of Ukraine. The West quickly responded in unison with a new form of strategic financial warfare and implemented a wall of economic sanctions designed to isolate Russia from the global economy.    The war caught everyone off guard, including the commercial space i...

The overall global demand for satellite-connected applications has been steadily increasing during the past decade, and market researchers expect this trend to continue. But this growth hasn't been evenly distributed, especially the Asia Pacific region, which includes nations like China with vast and complex fiber networks and others like Indonesia, with some of the most robust backhaul markets in...

One of nine startup entrepreneurs will soon find themselves on a 30-minute pitch call with some of the most powerful investors in the space sector, including Tess Hatch, Seraphim Capital, Toyota Ventures, and the former mayor of Washington D.C., now at MaC Venture Capital. To earn this phone call, they must beat out the other eight competitors in this year's Startup Space pitch competition taking...

As more and more commercial space companies go public and their technologies become more entwined with other industries, the demand for accurate and detailed information on how these businesses prosper has never been higher. This has made veteran space sector analysts like today's guest, Carissa Christensen, founder and CEO of BryceTech , so valuable to everyone from the common shareholder to the...

As more and more commercial space companies go public and their technologies become more entwined with other industries, the demand for accurate and detailed information on how these businesses prosper has never been higher. This has made veteran space sector analysts like today's guest, Carissa Christensen, founder and CEO of BryceTech , so valuable to everyone from the common shareholder to the...

This past December, the CEO members of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) announced that the organization was changing its name to the  Global Satellite Operators' Association  (GSOA)  — the second evolution in the near 30-year-old industry alliance. Emerging out of the infancy of the European Union in the '90s, the organization pushed to educate the continent's new governance of the...

This past December, the CEO members of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) announced that the organization was changing its name to the  Global Satellite Operators' Association  (GSOA)  — the second evolution in the near 30-year-old industry alliance. Emerging out of the infancy of the European Union in the '90s, the organization pushed to educate the continent's new governance of the...