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January 18, 2022
Tonga Volcano And Tsunami Destruction Shows Need To Secure Communications — In Space
nbcnews.com
Picture a major tsunami, with almost 50-foot waves, causing untold damage, made even more destructive because there was no adequate emergency alert system in place to warn residents. In the aftermath of the destruction, picture trying to use your cellphone to call first responders but realizing you can’t because the entire mobile network system has […]
March 02, 2020
Streamlined FCC Licensing A Big Deal For Smallsats
spacenews.com
Technology advances. Nations sometimes lead the way, sometimes struggle to keep up, and sometimes fall behind. Government officials make choices that enable technology to flourish in their country, cause it to wither on the vine, or force it to flee overseas.
October 31, 2019
Connecting Mobile Phone Users Everywhere…And Stimulating SATCOM Growth
satmagazine.com
At any given moment, about 750 million people with mobile phones in their pockets are outside the range of the world’s terrestrial cell towers. This lack of a connection is usually just a minor annoyance, but often it has major social and economic consequences, and sometimes is even a matter of life or death.
November 15, 2018
The Revolution That Is Commercial Space Is Just Beginning
SpaceNews
While everybody is rightly celebrating recent successes in commercial space, some long-term trends are just beginning. It is still early days, and significant growth and new opportunities are just around the corner. Perhaps the largest near-term opportunity for commercial space is bridging the digital divide and providing affordable connectivity to the last 2.5 billion on […]
