{"id":48325,"date":"2025-09-29T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/direct-to-device-and-defense-momentum-takeaways-from-world-space-business-week\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:51:15","slug":"direct-to-device-and-defense-momentum-takeaways-from-world-space-business-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/direct-to-device-and-defense-momentum-takeaways-from-world-space-business-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct-to-Device and Defense Momentum: Takeaways from World Space Business Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Paris, <em>Via Satellite<\/em> Editor Mark Holmes joins On Orbit host Rachel Jewett to unpack some of the top takeaways from <strong>World Space Business Week<\/strong>. Two themes drove much of the conversation during the week \u2014 direct-to-device (D2D) and defense. Spectrum was a big topic of conversation with <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2019s big spectrum buy and <strong>Viasat<\/strong> and <strong>Space42<\/strong> unveiling a new shared spectrum approach to D2D. And while defense demand is not new, it\u2019s driving conversations from satellite connectivity, imagery, and manufacturing, as Europe in particular is working though what increased defense spending means for space capabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Change was another theme this year with a new venue, and lots of new faces getting together to learn about the space and satellite industry. The editors cover some of the top storylines from the week, and their favorite parts of being in Paris in September.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Listen Here:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D2D and Defense Momentum: Takeaways from World Space Business Week by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2178745944&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to&nbsp;On Orbit&nbsp;wherever you listen to podcasts:&nbsp;Apple Podcasts,&nbsp;Amazon Music,&nbsp;Spotify,&nbsp;Soundcloud,&nbsp;and&nbsp;YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Paris, Via Satellite Editor Mark Holmes joins On Orbit host Rachel Jewett to unpack some of the top takeaways from World Space Business Week. Two themes drove much of the conversation during the week \u2014 direct-to-device (D2D) and defense. Spectrum was a big topic of conversation with SpaceX\u2019s big spectrum buy and Viasat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48326,"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-48325","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\/48325"}],"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=48325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}