Sixty years of technical, commercial and regulatory innovation

Over the past sixty years, technical and commercial innovation has been closely coupled with regulatory innovation to meet the changing social and economic and political realities of a fast changing world and has provided the basis for a remarkable network of geostationary satellites that are now being upgraded to meet the global communication needs of the next sixty years. In parallel unprecedented investment in new high satellite count low earth and medium earth orbit constellations could potentially disrupt existing industry business models and enable a closer coupling with terrestrial 5G networks.