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Moving With Speed Through Automation Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli laid out nine space acquisition tenets in October 2022, stating at that year’s TechCrunch in Los Angeles, “I think the threats against our systems by both Russia and China right now are too great.” With the importance…

Small satellite companies that have grown out of the New Space boom are retiring the cubesat platforms that made them to focus on larger, more powerful next-get small sats that promise to unlock new possibilities with advanced AI and real-time laser-based inter-satellite communications. Over the past 15 years, small satellites have revolutionized how things are…

Space has always been a huge part of popular culture. In fact, some of the highest-grossing movies like “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” have space at the heart. The expanse of space provides the perfect backdrop for emotive storytelling. No matter what age we are, space fascinates us. It engages with the dreamer inside…

Space has always been a huge part of popular culture. In fact, some of the highest-grossing movies like “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” have space at the heart. The expanse of space provides the perfect backdrop for emotive storytelling. No matter what age we are, space fascinates us. It engages with the dreamer inside…

While high-level deals and investment rounds often make the news, it’s the work happening behind the scenes every day that lays the groundwork for success — developing solutions, educating customers, and building consensus. Via Satellite recognizes the young professionals doing that work in a new feature, Via Satellite Rising Stars. These 25 young professionals nominated…

Things are picking up rapidly for Belgium-based satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab. This year alone the company launched four demonstration satellites on the Transporter-10 rideshare mission, broke ground on a new mega factory in Belgium, acquired AMOS, and signed a pivotal contract with MDA to provide subsystems for the Aurora constellation line. CEO and founder Benoît Deper…

The U.S. Department of Defense seeks access to resilient, proliferated, and diverse mission architectures — and diversification includes the altitudes at which operations can take place. Very-low Earth orbit (VLEO), at less than 300 km, represents a largely untapped domain between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. To date there have been few missions in VLEO…

We’re back with our annual special edition — Via Smallsat — a rebranded Via Satellite geared toward the smallsat community. This year we are launching a new young professional nomination program, Via Satellite Rising Stars. We asked to hear about young professionals who are ones to watch for the impact they are making at their…

I would hazard a guess that most Via Satellite readers have been following Starship’s development tests fairly closely, or at the very least, watching the livestream tests. But to recap: Starship is designed for a wide variety of missions – Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Orbit (GEO), lunar missions, and, of course, Mars and beyond.…