Plus: EchoStar's 'forced pivot'
SpaceNews journalists are reporting from World Space Business Week, held in Paris, France. We'll be bringing conference highlights to your inbox. For full coverage, go to spacenews.com/tag/world-space-business-week.
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| By Jeff Foust Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.
Executives speaking at a Sept. 15 panel at the World Space Business Week conference highlighted efforts to scale up flights of new vehicles that have entered service in the last two years.
"The key for us is cadence, so that we can scale up with a really dramatic increase in the coming year to meet the needs of all of our customers." said Laura Maginnis, vice president of New Glenn mission management at Blue Origin, citing investments in tooling and automation.
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| Expanding defense budgets and the direct-to-device race are driving growth in the global space economy, Novaspace CEO Pacôme Révillon, said at the outset of the World Space Business Week conference. At the same time, the space sector is experiencing significant consolidation, with an average of more than 50 annual mergers and acquisitions completed since 2021.
EchoStar is looking for ways to expand its communications business as an "asset-light growth company," CEO Hamid Akhavan said Sept. 15, after regulatory pressure prompted a series of spectrum sales in what he called a "forced pivot." Despite abandoning plans to deploy a low Earth orbit direct-to-device constellation, EchoStar intends to stay focused on satellite connectivity and communications. | | |
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| Swissto12 has completed the Preliminary Design Review for its first direct-to-device connectivity satellite, the Swiss small geostationary spacecraft manufacturer announced Sept. 15. The company will deliver the 1,000-kilogram Neastar-1 satellite for Singapore's Astrum Mobile, which aims to provide low-bandwidth multimedia and connectivity services across Asia.
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