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With more than a decade in the space industry, I've written (and podcasted) about many of the technologies associated with satellites and more. All of this content was created either for E-Space or Viasat.

E-Space • 28 September 2023

Meet Team E-Space: David Levitt

As the E-Space engineering teams work on the upcoming, highly innovative satellite constellation from different locations around the world, one person at the center of it all is program manager David Levitt.

E-Space • 22 September 2023

Creating sustainable space means we must all be space stewards

First we must ask how much space is in space?

E-Space • 22 September 2023

What does it mean to 'democratize space?'

Avoiding a new digital divide is one important part of it

E-Space • 11 September 2023

In the UK, the E-Space team tackles a new area of communications technology

Engineers in the Loughboroughfacility are focused on payload computer and avionics for the upcomingsatellite constellation

E-Space • 30 August 2023

How satellite-powered Smart-IoT will speed the connected vehicles revolution

Vehicle monitoring tools such as tire sensors and trailer tracking devices for large trucks as well as fleet-management and owner-level enhancements all require constant connectivity anywhere.

E-Space • 16 August 2023

Top 10 findings from Pew Research on Americans’ views of space

NASA remains popular while concerns exist about the handling of space debris by private space companies

E-Space • 15 August 2023

How radiation impacts satellites

While satellites are remarkably good at providing communications in places terrestrial networks cannot, they all must be designed to handle the harsh environment of space.

E-Space • 13 June 2023

How satellites can create cell towers in the sky

One of the most intriguing aspects of 5G is its potential to be used with satellites to create "cell towers in the sky." This would allow for global coverage and high-speed connectivity, even in remote areas.

E-Space • 30 May 2023

How satellites use the electromagnetic spectrum

Satellites use different parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum depending on their mission.

E-Space • 14 March 2023

FAQ: Understanding space debris

Ever since the advent of the space age, humankind has been creating more and more orbital debris — sometimes by accident when objects break or smash into each other, or intentionally when defunct satellites are left in orbit for years or decades ...

E-Space • 21 February 2023

Satellite smartphone connectivity is coming, but IoT will get there first

It’s far more likely we’ll see 5G, satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the near term — a primary focus of the upcoming E-Space constellation. Most IoT devices require only small amounts of bandwidth to send and receive data, making it simpler to create a global network to serve them.

E-Space • 31 January 2023

A world of connected sensors

Internet of Things devices are spreading rapidly, and so is the need for connecting them

E-Space • 6 December 2022

Space: It’s smaller than we think

For much of humanity’s time on Earth, the oceans seemed impossibly vast and indestructible. Over millennia, we treated it as an infinite resource and transportation medium — and polluted it with reckless abandon. We’re only now confronting the consequences of ocean degradation brought about by centuries of unregulated carelessness.

The same is now happening with space, another seemingly vast entity so large as to be immune from human destruction or waste.

“Space may be practically limitless, b

E-Space • 14 October 2022

How E-Space satellites are designed to reduce the problem of space pollution

Rethinking the basics of satellite design is core to our mission

viasat.com • 24 June 2022

Podcast: Keven Lippert on Viasat’s business in the UK

In this episode of the Viasat Podcast, host Alex Miller speaks with Keven Lippert, Viasat chief commercial officer, about the company’s business in the UK.

viasat.com • 31 March 2022

All about Viasat's defense business with Craig Miller

In this episode of the Viasat Podcast, host Alex Miller chats with Craig Miller, President of Government systems at Viasat.

viasat.com • 17 March 2022

After 32 years in the Army, Viasat's Joel Babbitt eyes the future

Viasat interoperable services help the Army’s contribution to the new vision of a seamlessly networked military

viasat.com • 11 February 2022

Radio waves and how satellites use them

In 2012, UNESCO dedicated Feb. 13 as “World Radio Day.” The idea is to celebrate the many ways in which radio brings us together, recognizing the fact that it’s still the most widely consumed media across the globe.

viasat.com • 20 January 2022

Moon and Mars missions call for some of the world's largest antennas

At its facility near Atlanta, Viasat builds large-aperture antennas up to 24 meters

viasat.com • 30 November 2021

Satellite internet latency: What's the big deal?

Radio waves sent from a satellite are moving at the speed of light, but because of the greater distances the signal must travel, the latency is higher than that of terrestrial providers. A cable internet signal, for example, may have an average latency of 30 milliseconds (ms), while a signal from a satellite in geostationary orbit might be 600 ms.

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