In February, GMV attended the 8th edition of the SmallSat Symposium, which was held in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. This year’s event was entitled “Growth² for Your SmallSat Business”, and it brought together an impressive group of speakers and panelists from a wide range of public, private, and governmental organizations, to identify essential trends and learn about the latest disruptive technologies. SmallSats now represent 97% of all satellites launched, it is important for their future to create an ideal environment for open communication and development of a consolidated vision.

The program for this conference covered an extensive range of subjects, such as the current SmallSat market, regulatory aspects, investment, and emerging technologies and concepts such as the Internet of things, in‑space services, megaconstellations, machine learning, and cloud computing.

As a worldwide leader in the satellite ground control market, GMV took advantage of this opportunity to participate in the conference with its own stand, where it showcased the company’s product lines for satellite control (Hifly), flight dynamics (FocusSuite), mission planning (Flexplan), ground station monitoring and control (Magnet), payload management (Smart payload), collision avoidance services (Focusoc), and data processing (Prodigi).

This event also represented a perfect forum for discussing the future of the industry, because right now there are hundreds of SmallSat projects already in progress, with ongoing near‑term growth expected for this market.