San Francisco has once more hosted the latest Satellite Innovation Symposium. Leaders and experts from the professional satellite communications sector came together from 8 to 11 October in this innovation-centered symposium to talk about the latest trends and input new, groundbreaking SatCom insights and ideas.

GMV ran a stand to showcase its inhouse products and capabilities, including, most notably: hifly^®, its real-time satellite monitoring and control system; focusSuite, its flight dynamics system; smart payload, its satellite payload management system; flexplan, its satellite resource planning system and family of navigation-support products, magic.

Symposium workshops and sessions dealt with emerging technology like space robotics applications, security systems, new propulsion systems, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, earth observation and remote sensing. The wide-ranging program gave an overview of the influence of new technology on satellite communications.