(New York, NY, USA & London, UK – 25 June 2025) – Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has opened nominations for the 2025 Better Satellite World Awards. Every December at the Better Satellite World Awards Dinner in London, SSPI honours three organisations that have demonstrated the use of satellite to make a significant contribution to human welfare, good governance, safety, peace and security, improved education or other measures of human achievement.  The Better Satellite World Awards Dinner is a fun, festive way to close out the year while celebrating the contributions of satellite to a healthier, safer and more prosperous world. The Better Satellite World Awards are produced by SSPI and its UK Chapter. At the Dinner, the SSPI UK Chapter also presents its annual Satellite Personality of the Year Award to an individual for their achievements in the promotion and development of the satellite sector in the UK.
Previous recipients of Better Satellite World Awards include Hughes, Microsoft and Colombia’s MICT – Juntas de Internet: Connectivity Communities, Maxar News Bureau, ASTERRA’s potable water detection technology, the United Nations’ Crisis Connectivity Charter, SATMED e-health satellite platform delivered by SES, the Bidi Bidi project in sub-Saharan Africa of Avanti Communications and Speedcast’s support for Peru’s Willka Yachay nonprofit, among many others. Click here to learn more about the awards and past winners. “Every year, SSPI has the privilege of curating the industry's most inspiring stories – within an industry overflowing with innovation and impact – and celebrating them, as we will again on 1 December 2025 in London,” said executive director Tamara Bond-Williams. “We look forward to discovering and sharing this year’s remarkable stories.” Nomination forms are available on SSPI’s website. Nominations are due by 12 September 2025.
About the Better Satellite World Campaign
The modern world literally runs on satellite – from data networks and TV to Internet, agriculture, energy and transport – though far too few people know it. The commercial satellite industry is now attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs and investors dedicated to lowering launch costs, downsizing spacecraft, servicing them in orbit and delivering ubiquitous connectivity at competitive prices. The Better Satellite World campaign shows the world why our industry, though often invisible, is indispensable to modern life, through powerful stories and videos that depict space and satellite technologies contributing to the economy, society and sustainability of planet Earth. More at www.bettersatelliteworld.com.
About SSPI
Founded in 1983, Space & Satellite Professionals International (www.sspi.org) is on a mission to make the space and satellite industry one of the world’s best at attracting and engaging the talent that powers innovation. The space and satellite business has never seen a time of greater experimentation and disruption than we see today. Investment is the fuel for transformation, but people are the engine. SSPI helps the industry attract, develop and retain the talented people it needs to keep the engine turning. People who connect through high-profile events and gain recognition from prestigious awards. People who rely on SSPI for a broader understanding of the industry as much as for individual networking and career mentoring. From young people seeking a career path to industry veterans with wisdom to share, SSPI connects them all.
Talent, investment and opportunity flow to industries that make a difference. SSPI is the only organization that also promotes the enormous value of space and satellite through dramatic stories of our technologies and companies making a better world. Those stories overturn misconceptions about the industry that hold it back. They inspire our people and attract new ones to the industry. They help justify investment and give new customers a reason to care about our services and products. Through the stories we tell and the people we serve, SSPI inspires the growth of the $1 trillion space economy of the future.
For More Information
Victoria Krisman
Communications Manager
Space & Satellite Professionals International
vkrisman@sspi.org | 
