SSPI Vertical Market Campaigns
SSPI’s topic campaigns have traditionally focused on a single big issue for the space & satellite industry and the world. Over several weeks, we explored that issue in depth through podcasts, videos, live conversations, and a new issue of The Orbiter.
We are now evolving that model into vertical market campaigns—industry-facing efforts that show how satellite technology solves real-world problems in specific sectors.
Now Underway:
- Securing the Future of Space – A year-long campaign addressing satellite operators, national security, space policy, and cyber risk
- Signal to Soar – Launching May 2025, focused on education, digital equity, and satellite-enabled access
Get Involved in a Campaign
Members can contribute as podcast guests, Orbiter writers, panelists, or featured companies in Better Satellite World videos.
Opportunities are member-first and guaranteed with sponsorship. More content = more visibility for the campaign as a whole.
Want to contribute or propose a future campaign? Contact Tamara Bond-Williams today!
Securing The Future of Space
April 7, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Satellites are the backbone of modern infrastructure, but the rapid expansion of space activities brings new challenges. Orbital debris threatens operational satellites, while policy gaps raise concerns about the equitable and sustainable use of space. By addressing these challenges, we can protect vital satellite services, enable innovation, and lay the groundwork for a secure and prosperous space economy. Through education, collaboration, and actionable insights, this campaign highlights the critical steps needed to safeguard our shared orbital resources.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video.
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The Space Business is Everywhere
January 1, 2025 – April 30, 2025
Once the exclusive province of prime government contractors and a handful of commercial satellite operators, the business of space has vastly expanded, accelerated and diversified, as the plunging cost of access to space has attracted unprecedented private investment. Established companies and startups are innovating in launch, earth observation, communications, IoT, orbital operations, space tourism and planetary exploration at a rate never seen before. Space-based products and services are transforming how the world does business. Trade, finance and insurance increasingly depend on analytics generated from earth observation. Broadband is available from the sky with a low-priced antenna and point-and-click installation, while in-flight connectivity is following in the footsteps of hotel broadband: once pricey and rare, now everywhere and free. Pharmaceutical research in orbit is yielding improvements in drug manufacturing, while manufacturing research is promising ultra-efficient fiber optic cables. The future that director Stanley Kubrick showed us a half-century ago in 2001: A Space Odyssey is finally taking shape before our eyes.
Listen to the podcast, read the Orbiter.
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Digital Space
September 2 – October 4, 2024
Space is going digital at last.
An industry long restricted to an insignificant slice of telecom spending has begun a journey toward a much bigger role in connecting and comprehending the planet we share. The digital capacity of space keeps growing with new satellites, on-orbit servicing and debris removal spacecraft. The new generations of satellite being launched into GEO, MEO and LEO are increasingly commanded by onboard software that interacts with AI-enabled software on the ground. They steer their electronically-generated beams wherever needed, adapting minute by minute to demand. Businesses have been funded to put data storage systems in orbit and on the Moon. And ground technology is beginning a revolution to replace analog systems with end-to-end digital, creating the possibility of seamless interconnection with the world’s telecommunications networks.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Invisible, Indispensable Infrastructure
April 22 – June 18, 2024
Our world is supported by infrastructure that no one can see. It keeps computer and communication networks running. It detects hurricanes and wildfires as they form and tracks the carbon driving climate change. It guides ships and aircraft, connects homes and schools, battles disease and uncovers illegal activity.
Unlike other infrastructure, it consumes no concrete or asphalt and needs no heavy steel beams for support. It circles the entire Earth, but your eyes never see it nor do your fingers ever touch it. It is the network of communication and observation satellites orbiting the world, thousands in number and growing fast. Day in and day out, they generate knowledge, share information and experiences and help protect, feed, inform and connect us. Without the invisible, indispensable infrastructure of satellite, life as we know it would be impossible.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Reducing the Risks of Space, Part 2: New Ideas in Space Safety
April 15, 2024 - December 31, 2024
The greater the value of space, the greater the risks.
The rise of the space economy is accelerating the business, operational and human risks.
Are we prepared to handle them?
In the Reducing the Risks of Space campaign, we explored policy, law, technology and operations in development now to manage the challenging space environment of the future. Now we continue the conversation with Part 2: New Ideas in Space Safety!
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Eternal Orbit
September 4, 2023 - October 12, 2023
There is a place in space where no atmosphere reaches, where satellites are invisible because they fly so high, and where they can hover magically over a single spot on the Earth’s surface. It is called geosynchronous orbit or GEO, because it synchronizes with the turning Earth. It is the first orbit, the oldest one in continuous use by human beings. For decades, it has brought the world television and phone calls, internet and business networks, and communications for military bases and humanitarian missions, remote mines and ships at sea.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Reducing the Risks of Space
May 8, 2023 - June 18, 2023
Not so many years ago, launch and deployment were the biggest risks of putting technology or people into space. Today, space is growing crowded with multiple orbits, massive growth in the number of satellites, and new business ventures from private space stations and fuel depots to in-orbit servicing and operations. They join orbital planes already home to 23,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball, moving at speeds of up to 17,500 mph.
A sustainable space environment for machines and people is a basic condition for the space economy. It is how we will maintain access to orbit and achieve the commercial success the industry dreams of. Until now, the world has relied on treaties and cooperation among business and government to keep space safe. As the value of space grows, that approach is fast running out of runway.
Reducing the Risks of Space will explore policy, law, technology and operations in development now to manage the challenging space environment of the future. It will ask if enough is being done and, if not, how we can motivate greater urgency in finding solutions. The campaign will also look at business models and technology advances that hold the promise of heading off the dreaded Kessler Syndrome that could make low Earth orbit unusable for decades.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Bridging the Broadband Gap
January 23, 2023 - February 28, 2023
Now more than ever, humans need connection to thrive. Satellite has the potential to massively shrink the digital divide in a generation. Will we succeed?
Satellite has been used to deliver the internet since the 1990s. Today, technology change, new orbits and new delivery models offer the potential for revolutionary progress in connecting the unconnected. The race is on to deliver more bandwidth to levels never seen before – levels that can meet the needs of millions living beyond the network’s edge while providing an adequate return on the significant investment required.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Opening the Final Frontier
October 24 2022 - December 1, 2022
Now more than ever, humans need connection to thrive. Satellite has the potential to massively shrink the digital divide in a generation. Will we succeed?
Satellite has been used to deliver the internet since the 1990s. Today, technology change, new orbits and new delivery models offer the potential for revolutionary progress in connecting the unconnected. The race is on to deliver more bandwidth to levels never seen before – levels that can meet the needs of millions living beyond the network’s edge while providing an adequate return on the significant investment required.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Untangling the Supply Chain
May 2, 2022 - June 6, 2022
The pandemic was expected to put a sharp dent in economic activity. It did for many industries and places – by closing factories and emptying out business districts, restaurants, hotels, sports stadiums and entertainment venues. But it also brought unexpected surges in online shopping and home renovation that caught supply chains by surprise and caused massive delays in shipping. The space and satellite industry was not immune. Depending on global networks of technology suppliers, manufacturing of rockets, spacecraft and ground technology were all affected. In Untangling the Supply Chain, SSPI explores two related issues in a series of podcasts, webinars, videos and articles.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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Climate Sense
January 10, 2022 - February 23, 2022
Now more than ever, humans need connection to thrive. Satellite has the potential to massively shrink the digital divide in a generation. Will we succeed?
Climate change is not a problem for tomorrow. It is happening before our eyes, whatever we think of its causes. Rising temperatures affect everything from agriculture to livability. Extreme weather brings more property damage and loss of life. Drought-striken forests blaze into fire storms that rage across millions of square miles or kilometers.
Limiting the world’s rising temperature and adapting to unavoidable change will take the concerted action of nations, companies and citizens. That will place burdens on all of us – but sustainability has the potential to be the greatest growth industry in history. Around the world, innovators are developing a thousand potential solutions to climate challenges. They are making alternative energy more affordable and powerful every year. They are pioneering ways to stop the release of carbon from pipelines, industrial processes and transportation. They are creating technologies to pull carbon from the air and markets to put it to safe and productive use. When the world is ready for serious action, serious solutions will be ready for the world.
To solve a problem, however, we must first fully understand it. And that is where satellite makes the critical difference. It is the only technology that provides perspective on the entire planet, from trends affecting entire oceans to changes in one square kilometer of land. Over the next six weeks, we will examine critical climate change challenges and satellite technologies and services that deepen our understanding and point the way to solutions.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video, read the Orbiter.
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