By Chris Forrester Phil Carrai, President, Space, Training & Cyber Division, Kratos, moderated the panel for Silicon Valley Space Week’s Milsat Symposium strand on October 23. It examined the topic […]
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The Swarms Are Coming
By Chris Forrester Dr Zak Manchester, Assistant professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. talked about small spacecraft swarms, and where “The whole is greater than the sum of its […]
Compliance needs dialogue between both sides
By Chris Forrester Silicon Valley Space Week’s Milsat Symposium 2024 opened October 23 with a compelling session (‘Optimized Creation of DoD Compliant Satellite Systems’) and a packed auditorium for its […]
Building and Exploiting Diversity in Collaboration
By Chris Forrester Silicon Valley Space Week wrapped its Satellite Innovation sessions with a panel that discussed the benefits of collaboration and how to leverage supplier diversity and technology. Miguel […]
Launch cadence, and rivaling SpaceX
By Chris Forrester Moderator Randy Segal (Partner, Hogan Lovells) said that besides SpaceX there was currently a very limited launch cadence from rivals to SpaceX. Panellists at the Silicon Valley […]
Will SpaceX and Starlink Dominate?
By Chris Forrester Dr Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates and a well-known industry advisor and commentator, moderated the New Satellite Architectures: On-board Processing, Optical Crosslinks and Interoperability session which […]
MSSA: Aiming for seamless and agnostic roaming
By Chris Forrester Mark Dankberg, Chairman of the Board, CEO, Co-founder, Viasat Inc., and was welcomed as a “real treat” by organiser Silvano Payne of SatNews. Dankberg, addressing delegates at […]
Optical Data Transfer needs standards, and volume production
By Chris Forrester Chris Quilty, Co-CEO Quilty Space, explained for delegates to the Silicon Valley Space Week held at Mountain View, Calif., that optical connectivity was increasingly important and generating […]
M&A can be hurtful
By Chris Forrester Silicon Valley Space Week brought together acknowledged experts in the M&A field and very much focused on space-related activity. Alexis Sáinz, Partner, Hogan Lovells, moderated the session […]
Power Device Corporation’s SBCs deployed on SDA’s tracking satellites
Power Device Corporation (PDC) has successfully deployed their SCS3740 Single Board Computers (SBCs) onboard the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tracking satellites, built by L3Harris Technologies and launched into LEO in […]