We like to think our local law enforcement has all the latest gadgets and technology to prevent and solve crimes and respond to emergencies. At the Police Fleet Expo in Orlando this week there certainly was plenty of gear including radios, displays, keyboards, cameras, radars, and tracking devices along with ballistic glass, PIT maneuver bumpers, weapons storage, and brakes - lots of brakes. Notably, only one company was showing advanced connectivity technology integrating sa

July 4, 2026, was an eventful day for Waymo in San Francisco. Some Waymo vehicles were filmed driving over lit fireworks in the street, while dozens of others congregated in the Presidio neighborhood blocking traffic for hours, according to eyewitnesses and news reports. A loss of cell service was cited by at least one observer and some of the traffic jammed Waymos even lost power. It all strongly suggests that the time has arrived for Waymo to add satellite connectivity to i

The title of the Hogan Lovells event last week was "Beyond the Moon: Nuclear Power and NASA’s Ignition Program." The uninformed or uninitiated might have thought that NASA's Ignition Program would represent the introduction of nuclear technology to space, but the reality is something quite different.

With war on the fringe of the Mediterranean and on NATO's eastern flank, the thinking vis-a-vis the role of the satellite industry is rapidly coalescing around the role of public and specifically defense funding and Europe's widening space gap with the rest of the world. The space gap is increasingly looking existential. At SmallSat Europe, the takeaway, as reported by Satnews, is that Europe is stepping up to close that gap.

We all know orbital space is becoming crowded, but is that something we need to be worried about? Kayhan Space's Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Araz Feyzi thinks so. In his words: "the launch curve is going vertical."

The emergence of direct-to-device satellite communications has set off a wave of investments, partnerships, new service announcements, and spectrum grabs in spite of the bandwidth limitations of the technology. Advocates are talking about near universal wireless coverage with the prospect, in the future, of broadband speeds.

I thought I was living the lonely life of a disconnected traveler without any hope of sympathy or understanding until I dialed into Ookla's latest reports on in-flight connectivity. Here, I discovered, Ookla gets me.

Data centers are coming soon to a patch of open land near you feeding off of and fueling the boom in artificial intelligence. With the rapid onset of hundreds of data centers sprouting across the country and the world has come a bumper crop of opposition from local residents concerned about power and water consumption, noise and air pollution, and overall quality of life impacts.