Satellite Operators Unload Ground Stations to Battle Starlink

Satellite Operators Unload Ground Stations to Battle Starlink

Hello, it’s Kiel Porter writing from Chicago. For all the excitement about launching sophisticated satellites into orbit, operators often depend on a humbler business, ground stations back on Earth, to connect customers to their constellations. More on this in a moment, but first ...

Ground Stations: Owned, or Rent Capacity? – SatNews

By Chris Forrester Noel Rimalovski (Managing Director, GH Partners) moderated this key panel at the SmallSat Europe conference held at the RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam on May 28. With his panel he examined the role of Ground Segment and the position of standards and innovation in the sector. He opened by saying that once it was geostationary operators who tended to have their own dedicated systems.  Harek Gamst (Director Sales and Marketing,…