The Satellite Transformation Nobody's Talking About #Space #Technology

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]I want to first ask you, the space industry is evolving very quickly. From your perspective on the mission operations side, how is the landscape of weather satellites and space infrastructure changing today?

[00:00:13]Yeah, I think we're seeing a lot of opportunity in the commercial sector to provide impactful weather observation from space. Like we're seeing that we can launch and operate a large number of relatively inexpensive, but still highly capable, satellites in lower Earth orbit. And this provides an effective complement to larger government weather satellite programs. And in terms of operations, from my perspective, what we're seeing seeing for a while now is a shift away from single satellite operations to more of a constellation or a fleet management approach to operations. One term I heard recently is sat sat devops, which I think captures how we're operating our payloads and where I see mission operations going as a whole. Not only for us, for the industry.

[00:00:55]Satellites are becoming more interconnected with ground systems, interconnected with other satellites.

[00:01:00]And so operations is starting to look a lot more like maintaining, you could think of them as compute nodes or even servers that just happen to be in space.

[00:01:08]Which is a bit of a paradigm change and I think it's been happening for quite some time now. It's very exciting.