Paying the premium: Why 2023 was a bad year for space insurance
Last year was the worst ever in the space insurance market – could satellite innovation be stifled as a result?
Long Reads - Space, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Space comes for fiber: Can satellites offer data centers a new resiliency option?
SES pitches its new mPower fleet as a viable alternative to fiber for telcos and data center operators
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Connecting the South Pole
Why a subsea cable to the edge of Antarctica might not lessen the South Pole’s reliance on satellites
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Data centers with dishes: How the cloud is driving a merger between data centers and ground stations
Hyperscalers are installing ground stations at data centers, while incumbents are moving to a more cloud-like, virtualized, as a Service way of thinking
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Wargames in space threaten satellite security and sustainability
We need to relearn lessons from the Cold War - about weapons in space
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Turbulence in the stratosphere: the state of HAPS post-Loon
Alphabet’s high altitude balloons were going to connect rural areas and usher in a new era of sub-satellite comms. Has its closure shut the door on a whole industry?
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Satellite boom demands better space traffic management
Manual detection and avoidance measures aren’t enough, when there's thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space junk
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Just how resilient are satellites?
They’ve become integral to our world, but how robust are the satellites on which we depend?