https://spacewatch.global/tag/ronald-van-der-breggen/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:00:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/ronald-van-der-breggen/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2022/03/spacewatchgl-opinion-satellites-in-a-world-of-crisis/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39968 Last weekend I received a link to the presentation that Steve Collar (CEO of SES) gave during GovSatCom22 in Luxemburg late last month. Steve is someone I genuinely respect, and we go back a long time. I fondly remember working with him on a DVB-RCS project back in 2003 that we thought was going to be critically important for the future of our industry, ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/spacewatchgl-opinion-let-there-be-light/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38032 The advent of NGSO systems has brought many technology changes to the satellite industry. The two that stand out the most for me are intersatellite links (ISLs) and lasers. Sure, we've also seen technology developments in propulsion, miniaturization, station-keeping and of course antenna design, but these technologies aren’t so much a function of NGSO developments ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/11/spacewatchgl-opinion-is-it-time-to-short-space/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37474 https://spacewatch.global/2021/09/space-cafe-webtalk-with-ronald-van-der-breggen-space-lessons-from-a-commercial-strategist/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=35508 https://spacewatch.global/2021/08/register-today-for-our-space-cafe-33-minutes-with-ronald-van-der-breggen-on-31-august-2021/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=35176 This Space Café WebTalk will feature Ronald van der Breggen, owner of Route206 and former Chief Commercial Officer at LeoSat, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, publisher of SpaceWatch.Global. "NGSO systems – Imminent success or a Hype after all..." Ronald van der Breggen has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and satellite sectors.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/05/spacewatchgl-opinion-counting-backwards-in-leo/ Sun, 16 May 2021 08:00:27 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=32768&preview=true&preview_id=32768 by Ronald van der Breggen A second-generation LEO has been in operation for years. Why are we only now launching our first generation? Recently I got an email with people referring to various LEO systems and they were classified into being either first or second or third generation. It was interesting because their definitions were different from mine]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/03/spacewatchgl-opinion-what-the-space-industry-can-learn-from-gamestop-gme/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=31126 A couple of weeks ago, my son pointed out that the share price of GameStop (GME) was skyrocketing. This resulted in a lively discussion on the merits and woes of trading stock and ended with watching The Big Short together. A great movie about the 2008 financial crisis that I highly recommend.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/11/spacewatchgl-opinion-leo-and-the-upside-down-business-model/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28156&preview=true&preview_id=28156 https://spacewatch.global/2020/07/spacewatchgl-opinion-a-statue-for-oneweb/ Sun, 19 Jul 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=24335&preview=true&preview_id=24335 During recent dinner table discussions around the tear down of historic statues, I found myself to have an unusual pragmatic view: History is to be captured in books, detailing both its glory and its gruesomeness.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/spacewatchgl-opinion-doing-an-iridium/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:00:48 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23338 Our industry is sometimes difficult to understand. OneWeb recently filed for bankruptcy, letting go of most of its staff, but then only a couple of days later they filed for an expansion of their fleet to 48,000 satellites.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/20413/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20413 Thriving in the New Space ecosystem can be very difficult. There is no blueprint, and the best ideas can rise and fall quickly and unpredictably. But still, we endeavour: planning missions, assembling satellites, and building mega-constellations. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/cabsat-2019-saudi-arabias-skyband-selects-leosat-for-data-network-backbone/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13055 LeoSat Enterprises, which is launching a constellation of 108 low-earth-orbit communications satellites that will provide the fastest, most secure and widest coverage data network in the world, has entered into an agreement with SKYBAND, a member of the Inteltec Group and leading communications provider of satellite and networking solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/spacewatchgl-oped-the-case-for-leosat-new-orbits-new-opportunities/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11631 When talking about GEO versus NGSO systems – predominantly LEO and MEO – one typically ends up in a discussion about latency and how MEO and LEO are capable of offering much lower latencies relative to the traditional GEO satellites. Alternatively one may also end up in an endless debate about satellite pricing and how it will come down by virtue of so much (NGSO) capacity flooding the market, causing many challenges for many satellite operators.]]>