{"id":46883,"date":"2026-06-09T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inside-the-state-of-the-satellite-industry-2026-report-with-sia-president-tom-stroup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:05:25","slug":"inside-the-state-of-the-satellite-industry-2026-report-with-sia-president-tom-stroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inside-the-state-of-the-satellite-industry-2026-report-with-sia-president-tom-stroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the State of the Satellite Industry 2026 Report with SIA President Tom Stroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of hype in the space industry and bold projections about how demand for satellite broadband, direct-to-device, and more. But every year, the <strong>Satellite Industry Association<\/strong> provides a clear view into the industry\u2019s financial performance in the annual State of the Satellite Industry Report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week, SIA President Tom Stroup joins On Orbit to dig into the 2026 report, which tracked rapid growth \u2014 the number of satellites launched to orbit in 2025 increased by 65%. Stroup shares some of the broad trends the report has been tracking in recent years, and some of the interesting contrasts \u2014 like the number of satellites manufactured compared to the value captured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report comes at a key time when there\u2019s a bright spotlight on the space industry ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and Stroup shares how it\u2019s used to educate policymakers on the broader satellite industry. The episode also covers how SIA works to find consensus among members in its policy positions, and his perspective on the satellite telecom convergence, as someone with deep experience in the wireless industry.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Listen here:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside the State of the Satellite Industry 2026 Report with SIA President Tom Stroup by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2335687196&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of hype in the space industry and bold projections about how demand for satellite broadband, direct-to-device, and more. But every year, the Satellite Industry Association provides a clear view into the industry\u2019s financial performance in the annual State of the Satellite Industry Report.&nbsp; This week, SIA President Tom Stroup joins On Orbit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}