March 26, 2010 — Jorge Potti (left), general manager of GMV’s aerospace division, joins fellow panelists Richard Forbes (center), vice president of marketing for STM Group, and Roger Rusch (right), president of TelAstra, Inc., as presenters of Satellite SWOT: Opportunities and Threats for a New Decade panel at Satellite 2010. GMV is a leading supplier of satellite ground systems. Potti was invited to present on GMV’s behalf at Satellite 2010, an annual conference for the international satellite community held March 15-18 at the Gaylord National Convention Center at National Harbor.

The SATELLITE SWOT: Opportunities and Threats for a New Decade forum discussed how evolving network architectures and the relentless expansion of wireless and other capabilities, coupled with declining costs and enhanced services, once again loom as a competitive challenge. Other questions posed include: What are the technologists doing to keep satellite alive and well into the future? What new developments will broaden the pool of potential and actual users of space-based communications assets? And beyond the 15-year lifetimes of satellites being built and launched today, what does the future look like five and ten years downstream for this sector?