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That’s All Folks.
Nearly a year. Weekly. Without missing an issue. On a topic most people can’t spell and even fewer care about until they’re sitting in a procurement meeting wondering why nothing…
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Leased Skies
How Satellites, States, and Markets Carved Up Connectivity for Power and Profit Satellite connectivity is easy to romanticise. Put something in orbit, wrap it in words like sovereignty, resilience and…
OW:2.14 MOONSHOT
April 3, 2026The satellite sector had a clarifying week, which is always dangerous because clarity tends to expose how much of the industry prefers mythology to operating logic. The central story was Artemis II, because it showed modern space activity in real…
SES: Sovereignty With Stock Tickers
April 3, 2026SES’s AGM paperwork opens with the kind of sterile efficiency that makes you nostalgic for the days when shareholder meetings pretended to be social events. The agenda is procedural, the language is legalistic, and the whole thing reads like it…
OW:2.13 Washington’s Multi-Orbit Religion
March 28, 2026The week of March 20 to 27, 2026, centered on Washington’s SATELLITE show, felt like the moment the satellite industry stopped pretending GEO, MEO, LEO, D2D, and defense connectivity were separate conversations. SATELLITE 2026 ran March 23–26 at the Walter…
The Last People Making Real Things
March 23, 2026Sarah spent eight years learning her craft, thousands of hours in practice rooms. She plays violin in a chamber ensemble that records for film soundtracks. Professional work. Last quarter, her Spotify royalties came to €37.14. Not per song. Total. For…
Eutelsat’s Telecom Cosplay Meets the FlexSat Guillotine
March 22, 2026We read ViaSatellite’s interview with Jean-François Fallacher and these are our thoughts. Eutelsat wants you to meet Jean-François Fallacher as the calm adult in the room, the telecom veteran who will steer a legacy GEO broadcaster into a modern connectivity…
OW:2.12 logistics & sovereignty sexier than slogans
March 20, 2026The big mood of this week was not “look at my giant constellation” so much as “look at my procurement readiness, my standards compliance, and my increasingly defense-friendly spectrum plan.” In other words, the industry spent the week trading the…
OW:2.11 Show Your Homework
March 13, 2026The satellite communications industry has spent the better part of a decade explaining, with tremendous confidence and very attractive slide decks, that it is in the process of reinventing how humanity connects. This is a compelling story. It is also,…
Germany’s SpaceRISE Strategy: Participate and Insure
March 12, 2026The earlier pieces on France were about capability. More precisely, they were about France’s growing ability to pull key layers of a sovereign satcom stack into the same political orbit around Eutelsat, Airbus Defence and Space, Greenerwave, Orange, and a…
WEEKLY WHISPERS
OW:2.14 MOONSHOT
April 3, 2026The satellite sector had a clarifying week, which is always dangerous because clarity tends to expose how much of the industry prefers mythology to operating logic. The central story was Artemis II, because it showed modern space activity in real…
OW:2.13 Washington’s Multi-Orbit Religion
March 28, 2026The week of March 20 to 27, 2026, centered on Washington’s SATELLITE show, felt like the moment the satellite industry stopped pretending GEO, MEO, LEO, D2D, and defense connectivity were separate conversations. SATELLITE 2026 ran March 23–26 at the Walter…
OW:2.12 logistics & sovereignty sexier than slogans
March 20, 2026The big mood of this week was not “look at my giant constellation” so much as “look at my procurement readiness, my standards compliance, and my increasingly defense-friendly spectrum plan.” In other words, the industry spent the week trading the…
OW:2.11 Show Your Homework
March 13, 2026The satellite communications industry has spent the better part of a decade explaining, with tremendous confidence and very attractive slide decks, that it is in the process of reinventing how humanity connects. This is a compelling story. It is also,…
OW:2.10 The week satcom started selling plumbing
March 6, 2026Friday, February 27 through March 6, 2026 felt like the satellite industry’s annual reminder that, beneath all the heroic talk about connecting the unconnected and reshaping civilization, the business is increasingly about integration and who gets to sit in the…
OW:2.09 Satcom wants to be a mobile operator
February 27, 2026Between Friday 20 February 2026 and Friday 27 February 2026, satellite communications spent the week doing what it does best: quietly rewriting the connectivity stack while loudly insisting it’s “just complementary.” The headline vibe was unmistakable. Direct-to-device went from conference-panel…
Deep Dives
3GPP Nerd Speak Training
January 20, 20263GPP sounds like the name of a dull EU directive or maybe a brand of printer ink. In reality it is the committee where telcos, vendors and a few satellite operators attempt to agree on what 5G or 6G actually…
SpaceX’s 2026 IPO “Announcement” Is Really a Pressure Valve
December 13, 2025SpaceX did not announce an IPO the way normal companies announce things, with a date, a deck, and a parade of bankers pretending to have a soul. What you got instead was the classic Musk-universe version: a narrative breadcrumb that…
The Cost of Maritime Multi-Orbit
October 1, 2025Let’s get one thing out of the way: you don’t buy “megabits.” You buy whether the email goes when the mate is yelling for the manifest, whether the chart update finishes before the pilot boards, and whether the crew Wi-Fi…
These Execs stepped into the light. No inbox echoes, no sudden allergies to candor. They answered knowing every dodge and cliché would be on display and that’s exactly why the others are still chirping from the Cricket List.
Comment & Analysis
SES: Sovereignty With Stock Tickers
April 3, 2026SES’s AGM paperwork opens with the kind of sterile efficiency that makes you nostalgic for the days when shareholder meetings pretended to be social events. The agenda is procedural, the language is legalistic, and the whole thing reads like it…
The Last People Making Real Things
March 23, 2026Sarah spent eight years learning her craft, thousands of hours in practice rooms. She plays violin in a chamber ensemble that records for film soundtracks. Professional work. Last quarter, her Spotify royalties came to €37.14. Not per song. Total. For…
Eutelsat’s Telecom Cosplay Meets the FlexSat Guillotine
March 22, 2026We read ViaSatellite’s interview with Jean-François Fallacher and these are our thoughts. Eutelsat wants you to meet Jean-François Fallacher as the calm adult in the room, the telecom veteran who will steer a legacy GEO broadcaster into a modern connectivity…
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