AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile's 2027 D2D Delay — Analysis
AST SpaceMobile pushed direct-to-device service to 2027 and raised a billion dollars. Here is what the delay changes, and what it quietly does not.
Glenn Canales
40+ years in satellite communications. Former Sr. Director at Viasat. PanAmSat/Intelsat. iDirect. USAF veteran. Independent analyst covering LEO, GEO, D2D, and sovereign connectivity. No hype. A point of view.
Hughes
Everyone is watching DISH go bankrupt. Watch Hughes instead - Deep Dive Weekly
DISH's bankruptcy is the headline. Hughes' August 1 debt maturity is the enterprise story with a date on it. Why it matters for JUPITER capacity.
Analysis
Is iDirect a Smart Buy?
ST Engineering marked its ground-segment champion to a floor and opened a strategic review. Here's what a buyer would actually get — and what it's worth.
Sovereignty
Scale vs. Sovereignty - Deep Dive Weekly
A newly public SpaceX filed for a 100,000-satellite Gen3 constellation. Japan, Indonesia, Nepal and the UAE answered with sovereign connectivity.
Analysis
1.7 Million Satellites: Astronomers vs the FCC — Analysis
Companies have filed to launch ~1.7 million satellites. A new ESO study urges the FCC to cap the total at 100,000. What's at stake for the night sky.
Consolidation
The Week Consolidation Stopped Being a Forecast - Deep Dive Weekly
SES–Intelsat, Amazon–Globalstar, Rocket Lab–Iridium, SpaceX–EchoStar: ~$40B of satcom consolidation, and who gets absorbed next.
Iridium
Bought, Not Built: Why Rocket Lab's Iridium Deal Isn't the Next Starlink
Iridium deal looks like SpaceX's Starlink playbook. It isn't — a flywheel is built, not bought. Here's what the acquisition actually buys.
Research
The Independent and Regional Satellite Ground-Segment Layer: A 2026 Map
Map of the independent and regional ground-segment layer — legacy teleports, GSaaS entrants and the operators. Who owns what, the live consolidation wave, and why France blocking the Eutelsat–EQT carve-out put a sovereignty ceiling on ground infrastructure as an asset class.
Analysis
The Multi-Orbit Mirage: How GEO Operators Are Retiring the Fleet They Can't Fill
An operator’s read on the GEO retreat: SES and Eutelsat are cancelling satellites and writing down assets while multi-orbit partnerships grab the headlines. Why a LEO deal retains the customer but never fills the transponder — and why the geostationary arc may be about to empty out.
Direct to Cell
The Capital Event — SpaceX's IPO and the closing of the D2D frontier - Deep Dive Weekly
SpaceX priced the largest IPO ever this week — but the same five trading days quietly hardened direct-to-device into a three-operator, spectrum-defined oligopoly. Verified analysis on SpaceX, Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, Globalstar, Amazon and Jio.
Ground Segment
Ground Segment in the Space Economy
Sovereignty
India's Sovereignty Standoff — Jio vs. Starlink: Deep Dive Weekly
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