The Satcoms Innovation Group announces shortlist for SIG Awards

Ledbury, Herefordshire, 14th March 2024 – The Satcoms Innovation Group has announced its shortlist for the SIG Awards. Designed to celebrate the satcom industry’s best and most innovative solutions and professionals, the award categories are Innovation of the Year, Best Cooperation, Young Engineer of the Year and Educational Project of the Year.

Shortlisted for the Innovation of the Year Award are:

Plextek
Kacific
Reticulate Micro
Quadsat

Shortlisted for Best Cooperation are:

ST Engineering iDirect x European Protected Waveform (EPW)
GSOA and ESA
GSOA and World Radiocommunications Conference
Intelsat and Northrop Grumman

Shortlisted for Educational Project of the Year are:
This award is sponsored by ST Engineering iDirect.

Grupo W Com
Satcube
Space for All
Destination Imagination

Shortlisted for Young Engineer of the Year are:
This award is sponsored by Intelsat.

Lukas Nystrom, Satcube
Andrian Buchi, Quadsat
Harley Clarke, Intelsat
Jacob Jenner, Atheras Analytics

Winners will be announced on Monday 18th March at a SIG Networking Event which is free to attend for both members and non-members (registrations are open).

Helen Weedon, SIG Managing Director, commented: ‘The quality of nominations has been incredibly high this year and I would like to thank all who have submitted entries. It is clear that the satcom industry is responding to the demands of Newspace and the industry’s evolving role within wider communications networks with significant innovation. We look forward to announcing the winners at our Networking Event at SATELLITE.’

SIG is hosting a number of other events at SATELLITE 2024, including a Flat Panel Antenna breakfast roundtable with GSOA (hosted by Kratos), a drinks reception with Quadsat, and a Virtualisation evening with Intelsat. Registrations are open and extended to non-members.