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Is the world finally waking up to SSA? In a recent article, SDA's Charlie Law reviews whether governments are dealing with space sustainability with enough urgency, the impact of new initiatives on space debris, and whether global space-users can truly band together to prevent the degradation of the space environment. Read his thoughts in Satcom Digital now: https://lnkd.in/gTSqC2tn

How can we ensure emergency communication when all other systems fail? With AROBS AlertBox, even in the most remote locations and in challenging conditions, people can still receive vital alerts and services. Our AROBS Engineering team has developed AlertBox to leverage satellite technology and durable, high-performance hardware. This solution provides access to emergency services and critical alerts, ensuring no location is vulnerable when traditional networks fail. We’re proud to be part of a group that drives meaningful progress in emergency communication. Discover how AROBS AlertBox is setting new benchmarks for emergency communication: https://lnkd.in/d38iTiVa

Is IRIS² Europe’s Space Security Game-Changer? This week’s Space Nugget unpacks the European Commission’s IRIS² program and its impact on Europe’s autonomy and resilience in space. 📬Subscribe now for Dr. Emma Gatti's analysis, delivered every Friday: https://lnkd.in/g8n_pKB #SpaceNugget #IRIS2 #EuropeanSpace #SatelliteCommunication #SpaceSecurity #ResilientNetworks #SpacePolicy #GlobalConnectivity #TechInnovation

Stronger together Principals from the Combined Space Operations Initiative met in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 December 3–5 to discuss emerging threats to space systems, to emphasize the importance of the responsible use of space, and to identify new opportunities for collaboration. Read more about their discussion here: https://lnkd.in/ed8nt9Tf

👩🚀 From punching above its weight to an inflection point, the UK space sector has developed (extremely) fast in one year!     🛰In the past few weeks, I’ve attended several events that have affirmed this assertion. These included a space business roundtable organized by SSPI UK, meetings with the Positioning, Navigation, and (don’t forget!) Timing community, an event with the National Spectrum Centre at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and finally, a space security symposium hosted by the Swiss Embassy.   🚀 It all comes together with the announcement by the UK Government of a new Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which will promote regulatory agility driving more competition, investment, and market access.   As we wait all these dialogues to unfold, there is plenty to go around to ensure resilience for the industry and prevent costs from skyrocketing 🤣   Jokes aside, we need to mitigate the risk from debris by optimizing space assets. Attention must be given to guarantee delivery along the supply chain. As well as adopt a secure by design capability to current and future space assets.   💡 These are but a few thoughts we need to develop to guarantee return from all the amazing activity in the sector. 📸 Thanks to Jaynesh Patel for registering the moment.   #satellite #space #capabiltities #resilience

#GWF2024 | Lóránt Czárán, Scientific Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) says, "Satellite data is expensive and a lot of countries cannot afford it, they complain about lack of access. So our work at United Nations is to try to make this data more affordable, accessible to them be it through platforms or negotiated agreements with the vendors and so on." "Key is also to have multi-agency and multi-user license agreement which is another area where we are pushing very hard to make sure this data is easy and shareable when once purchased." "So to make satellite data easily accessible is very important." #GeospatialWorldForum2024 #data #satellitedata #geospatial

This episode of Technologically Speaking is just as relevant today as it was when it first aired last year. Ernest Wong, a Technical Manager at DHS Science and Technology Directorate, breaks down how space technology and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems are becoming essential to life here on Earth. From keeping our power grids running to improving satellite communications, he explains the growing role of space in our critical infrastructure—and the challenges that come with it. As space commercialization takes off, this conversation is a must-listen for anyone curious about how space innovation is shaping our future and the future of homeland security. https://lnkd.in/ep9MeEcG

After working more than a year in stealth mode, I’m thrilled to announce my new company - Logos Space Services. After working for decades in building large terrestrial broadband infrastructure, I am returning to my NASA roots in satellite connectivity. Back in the 80’s and 90’s at NASA, I worked on extending the Internet across the world through satellite connectivity. Today, as the terrestrial fiber network has massively expanded, the move to cloud-based IT models means that the price of being disconnected from that network has become increasingly expensive. Yesterday, we filed an application with the FCC to build and operate a new dual-use Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation, providing highly resilient multi-gigabit communications services across the globe and equipped with coherent optical crosslinks that reduce the need to transit terrestrial fiber. Using an innovative spectrum approach in the V, K, and E bands, we will deliver fiber-like connectivity without touching the Internet, with IP transit as an option for companies that desire it. We also aim to provide services to other LEO satellites using innovative RF inter-satellite links. By using advanced antenna systems, Logos can provide extremely narrow beams that focus RF energy on customer user terminals, making the system very hard to interfere with, and also preventing it from interfering with others. In a world where wireless services are increasingly subject to jamming, any new communications system needs to be designed to operate in a contested spectrum environment. Through these very narrow beams, the ability to jump across multiple GHz of spectrum, and use of different kinds of waveforms, we believe we can provide the kind of resilience that enterprise customers can depend on, no matter what is going on in the world around them. And using a Software Defined Network control system like that provided by my friends and fellow Xooglers at Aalyria, we can provide service level guarantees for network transport in closed user groups, but can also provide Internet access as an option. It’s also a pleasure to build this constellation with Ramakrishna Akella, a space veteran who designed the antenna and communications systems for Starlink, and led the silicon team at Kuiper, who brings amazing experience in satellite communications. I also want to thank Thomas Tull, who pushed me to take up this challenge, and is backing us through his dual-use USIT fund.  The satellite business has changed a lot since I worked at NASA, especially with the amazing work done by the folks at SpaceX on Starlink, who are trying to make satellite a real competitor to the cable and fiber to the home systems I helped to develop and deploy. While we at Logos are not trying to compete for consumer access, we think we can provide the kind of fiber-like performance communications services with the security and resiliency that enterprises, government, military, and telecommunications partners need.

My take on #Germany's first #Space #Security #Strategy currently in the works via War on the Rocks 👉 "Germany cannot achieve its self-imposed goal of being “a guarantor of European security” with the “best-equipped force in Europe” without finally fully recognizing the security dimension of space. Despite some encouraging steps in recent years, Berlin still has a number of challenges to overcome before it can play the ambitious role it aspires to. Germany’s first-ever Space Security Strategy, due later this year, will thus provide an overdue opportunity to actively advance Germany’s role in space security and as a reliable partner, but only if it puts the necessary conditions in place." Thanks to Nicholas Danforth and Cody Retherford for their valuable input along the way. https://lnkd.in/d_ESZUw9

📣“New Space Threats to Europe - Are we well prepared?” That’s the title of the panel hosted by the Head of BDLI’s Space Strategy Committee, Eva-Maria Aicher, on the closing day of the Munich New Space Summit.   ❗The key take-aways: 🔷The threats to space assets on ground or in space do not only stem from foreign adversaries, but also from internal challenges: 🔸Lack of political support, ambitions and strategies 🔸Bureaucratical hurdles and overregulation 🔸Overly sophisticed customer requirements or specifications of the manufacturers themselves 🔸Lack of a streamlined common space (security) strategy in Germany and Europe ➡️ To overcome these challenges a change in mindset is needed, especially with regard to German "Fehlerkultur". ➡️ Thus the importance of space must not be communicated to decision-makers only but also to the general public. Rafaela Kraus, Jens Schroeter, Martin Spitzer, Florian Doetzer, Matthias Spott #MunichNewSpaceSummit #MNSS #NewSpace #Innovation #Space #Future #Cooperation #Europe #DefenceandSpace #DefenceMatters #SpaceMatters #Innovation #Germany