Takeaways from GOVSATCOM 2019

Last week saw the GOVSATCOM conference held in Luxembourg. The conference featured several hundred attendees and speakers across the whole government satellite communications and military satellite communications (govsatcom and milsatcom) value chain. A variety of themes were covered during the one-day event, but from a satcom perspective, the most important takeaways were the rising importance of satcom as a strategic industry, and the increasing impact that technological change is having on the satcom value chain. These topics were largely addressed at a macro level during the morning speeches, with…