SATELLITE 2024

The SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition launched in 1981 with the goal to connect and unite the satellite industry as we headed towards new frontiers. Over the past 42 years, SATELLITE has served the satellite and space communities and broadened the scope of content to encompass professionals in commercial markets benefiting from satellite technology and applications, such as broadcasting, media & entertainment, government/military, aviation, maritime, automotive, financial, healthcare, telecommunications and more. The evolution of technology makes this year’s event more important than ever.

No longer relegated to the margins of the connectivity ecosystem, satellites are impacting millions of lives, global businesses, and government action. Today there is unlimited opportunity for companies to take advantage of the efficiencies, savings, and benefits that satellite and space technology can offer.

**SATELLITE has a history of being the largest business gathering, innovation platform, and media event of the year. A few examples of industry developments announced at SATELLITE:**

- Boeing revealing the industry’s first all-electric communications satellite bus 702SP (2011).
- Jeff Bezos appears to reveal Blue Origin’s first commercial satellite launch customer (2017) and its first lunar lander, Blue Moon (2019).
- Elon Musk appears to announce commercial satellite launch service on Falcon 9 (2009) and remote/rural broadband service on Starlink (2020).
- SES becomes the first global satellite operator to sign a launch contract with SpaceX, a major endorsement for the new launcher, and the first operator to sign for a reusable launch (2012 & 2016).
- Former O3b visionary and founder of Isotropic Systems Jon Finney reveals the industry’s smallest multi-band, all-in-one terminal (2018)
- Hughes reveals Jupiter-1 and Jupiter-2 satellites and issues manufacturing contracts (2008 & 2013).
- Antenna manufacturers ThinKom, Kymeta, Ball and Phasor reveal phased-array or beam-forming antenna systems (2012-2020).
- Silicon Valley investors, joined by executives from Google, Planet, and Spire, proclaim the start of a golden age for “New Space” companies and entrepreneurs (2014).
- Iridium reveals its 2nd generation NEXT Constellation (2010).
- NGC (formerly Orbital ATK) reveals the first commercial in-orbit servicing contract with Intelsat for its MEV-2 (2018).
- Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides and Virgin Founder Richard Branson announce plans to service the commercial satellite industry with a reusable, suborbital launcher (2015).

Lean in and link up at SATELLITE 2023.