Category: Software Defined Technology

Satellite capabilities are changing. Previously, they were designed to fulfil a specific purpose with beams covering certain regions with pre-determined throughput. Today, they are becoming increasingly flexible with completely dynamic beams, opening up new possibilities and creating greater flexibility. These software-defined standardized payloads mean that operators don’t need to design satellites upfront, and operators can launch satellites and configure them later to a specific use case or reconfigured depending on demand. This removes a lot of business risk for the operator. But that also means that, to unlock the capabilities that New Space offers, ground systems must be equally dynamic and tightly integrated to dynamically match the resources on the ground with those in space as and where they are needed.