About Satellite Insights Weekly

Independent weekly intelligence on the satellite communications sector. No hype. A point of view.

Satellite Insights Weekly is written by Glenn Canales, who spent 40 years inside commercial satellite communications: Senior Director of Enterprise Broadband Services at Viasat, and before that iDirect Technologies, PanAmSat/Intelsat, Sagenet, and a United States Air Force communications role.

That background sets the lens. Most satellite coverage is written from the spacecraft, the launch, or the government contract. This one is written from the ground: teleports, modems, ground-network contracts, and the enterprise buying decisions that determine whether a constellation ever makes money.

What does Satellite Insights Weekly cover?

• Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband
• Geostationary and Highly Elliptical Orbit (GEO/HEO) operator economics
• Ground segment: teleports, modems, ground network as a service, vendor economics
• Direct-to-device (D2D) and satellite Internet of Things (IoT) services
• Sovereign connectivity and national constellation policy

Five standing lanes, not five weekly obligations. An edition goes where the week went. Some weeks that means three lanes and one story that deserves the room. Deliberately out of lane as primary subjects: military and defense procurement, aviation connectivity, maritime connectivity. They appear as supporting evidence inside a piece. They never carry one.

How is an edition built?

Each Deep Dive opens with the same question: what was the most significant event of the week, and why does it matter? Everything after that is a set of event cards, each a self-contained read on one development, delivered as an interactive briefing rather than a wall of prose.

How are the numbers verified?

Every market capitalization, market size, valuation, share price and fleet count is pulled from a live source at the moment of writing. Never from memory, never carried forward from a prior edition. Specific factual claims require two independent sources, and anything single-sourced says so in the text, with the source named.

One more rule, and it is the one that separates this from most trade coverage. "Designed for 100 gigabits per second" is a specification. "Demonstrated 100 gigabits per second" is a measurement. Press releases collapse the two. These pages keep them apart.

What does a membership include?

Free members receive the weekly free article in full on the day it publishes, plus the public preview of every Deep Dive.

Paid members receive the current Deep Dive and the two before it, in full, on publish day, plus the complete archive.

Timing is what you are buying. Editions eventually age out of the paywall and become public, so the archive is not the scarce part. Reading the analysis while the trade is still live is.