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Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has released its newest video in the Better Satellite World campaign: Safe Launch. The video explores what it takes to launch safely to space. Safe Launch was made possible with the generosity of the American Space Exploration Fund and Artel.
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced today the recipients of the industry’s tenth annual Better Satellite World Awards. The awards honor established companies along with disruptive innovators who make the world more prosperous, healthier, better-educated, more sustainable and more inclusive.
Last night at the Future Leaders Celebration in Silicon Valley, Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) presented the 2024 Promise Awards to Mackenzie Mason of Boeing, Paige Webster of ATLAS Space Operations and Bradley Williams of NASA. The Promise Awards honor the three top-ranked members of the annual “20 Under 35” list of space & satellite employees and entrepreneurs age 35 and under who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the early stages of their career.
Today, when everything is digital, it seems truly remarkable how long we have been commercializing space in analog mode. Sure, the Space Race and defense spending in the 1960s gave birth to microelectronics. But who could forget – if you’re of the right age – the US$1 million that one company spent to create a pen that could write in microgravity? The company’s founder, Paul Fisher, offered the Space Pen to NASA, and it made its first spaceflight in 1967. (Meanwhile, Russian cosmonauts just used a pencil.)
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today released Byte-Sized Space, its newest video in the Better Satellite World campaign. It explores how the space and satellite industry is going digital with software-defined satellites, digital ground systems and more. Byte-Sized Space is made possible by funding from Hughes Network Systems LLC and is part of SSPI’s Digital Space topic campaign.
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today announced that it will present its 2024 Mentor of the Year Award to Joan Tang Mancuso, Marketing & Business Development Consultant and former marketing and sales executive at multiple global communications enterprises.
The Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today announced the seventh annual “20 Under 35” list of outstanding young space and satellite professionals age 35 and under. The honorees will be celebrated at SSPI’s 19th annual Future Leaders Celebration on October 21 during Silicon Valley Space Week, produced by SatNews publishers.
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today announced the beginning of Digital Space, a multi-week campaign featuring videos, podcasts, live conversations and a new issue of SSPI’s digital magazine, The Orbiter. The campaign explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and space-based digital infrastructure, from the ground breaking developments in Lunar data storage to the innovative software that powers the next generation of sales.
After an election by the membership, the Board of Directors of Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) welcomes seven new Directors for three-year terms beginning July 1
SPI-WISE (SSPI Women in Space Engagement) has announced the results of its 2024 officer election, which took place over the final week of June.
“Engage” is a powerful word. It is something that SSPI tries to help the people of our industry do every day. And believe me, we all need that help.
Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today released Putting a CAP on Climate Change, its newest video in the Better Satellite World campaign. It explores how nations in the European Union are benefiting from the fusion of multi-orbit, public and private satellite data to meet ambitious goals for reducing GHG emissions from food production.
Intuitive Machines has successfully touched down on the Moon.
