›Space Segment Disruptive Evolution: GEO, MEO & LEO – Does a Global Crisis Make a Difference? - ⌚ 15:00 BST

Thursday, 18 June 2020 @ 3pm BST / 10am EDT

In-orbit technology is rapidly evolving and creating new markets.  The technology is blurring legacy distinctions between orbiting infrastructures and may prove to be “disruptive”.  The very latest GEO satellites will soon achieve near-terabit throughput capacity (and at much reduced cost per Gbps), existing MEO constellations are evolving into more powerful systems, existing LEO systems are upgrading to more advanced levels of capability, and LEO mega-constellations are being deployed.  All of these technologies are serving to help meet the bandwidth requirements of an increasingly inter-connected broadband world.

Alongside these potentially disruptive technologies is the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic.  Certainly, the world being served by the evolving in-orbit technology is much different from the world existing when plans to develop and deploy these technologies were developed.

Discussion in this webinar will begin by tackling a strategic question:  Are the technologies being deployed in GEO, MEO and LEO – and their potential to be disruptive — being affected by the consequences of the pandemic?

Then the focus will shift on the user markets served by satellite. Will changes to the user markets brought about by the pandemic impact services delivered by satellites in GEO, MEO or LEO? Has the pandemic created more room for a broad range of solutions? Or, has the pandemic increased competition within and between GEO, MEO and LEO systems and what are the consequences of such increased competition?

There will be many more questions; the objective here will be to provide just as many answers.

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