Two days in central London devoted entirely to the part of a satellite system that stays on the ground: teleports, antennas, modems, network virtualisation and the operations teams that keep the link up.
Strategies in Satellite Ground Segment, usually shortened to SSGS, is an annual two-day conference held in London and dedicated to satellite ground infrastructure. The 2026 edition takes place on 30 September and 1 October at the Park Plaza Victoria London, two minutes from Victoria station. It is presented by Talk Satellite and the Satellite Evolution Group, both publishers serving the satellite communications industry. The programme brings together satellite operators, teleport owners, ground segment technology vendors, network specialists and government stakeholders, and covers commercial, civil and defence use of the same infrastructure. The 2025 edition reported record attendance with participation from organisations including the European Space Agency, Airbus, Vodafone, Viasat and national defence agencies.
The satellite industry's conference calendar is organised around spacecraft: who is building them, who is launching them, who is financing the constellation. The ground segment is treated as a line item at those events, which is a strange result given that it is where the capital expenditure lands once a constellation is flying and where most operational failures actually occur. SSGS exists because the people who run teleports, procure antennas and virtualise ground networks had no room of their own. The programme is single-track and narrow by design, which is what makes it useful: everyone present shares the same technical vocabulary.
The recurring themes are the structural shifts in ground infrastructure rather than product launches. Ground station as a service has changed the build-or-rent calculation for new operators. Multi-orbit constellations force ground networks to track and hand over rather than point once at a geostationary slot. Virtualisation is moving modem and baseband functions into software on general-purpose hardware. And the defence side, previously served by separate sovereign infrastructure, is increasingly buying into commercial ground networks, which raises questions about resilience and control that the commercial side has never had to answer.
No. It is a conference with a single-track programme and structured networking breaks, not an exhibition floor. Vendors participate as speakers and sponsors rather than as stand holders.
It is held in London but the audience is international. Satellite ground infrastructure is a global business and the operators, teleport groups and vendors present come from across Europe, North America and beyond.
Yes, explicitly. The organisers describe the programme as bringing together commercial, civil and defence perspectives, and defence agencies have been among the participating organisations.
SSGS is presented by Talk Satellite and the Satellite Evolution Group, publishers rather than exhibition companies. That origin shows in the format: the event is built around editorial judgement about what the industry needs to discuss, and it stays small and single-track instead of scaling into a floor plan.
The ground segment gets one conference of its own a year, and this is it: no launch talk, no constellation hype, just the infrastructure that makes the signal land.
Registration is handled on the conference website, which lists a tickets section and a registration link. Delegate pricing was not published on the public pages at the verification date, so prospective attendees should request rates directly through the site. Registration on the day opens at 8:00am at the venue. Sponsorship and speaking positions are arranged directly with the organisers and are limited by the single-track format.
30 September and 1 October 2026 at the Park Plaza Victoria London.
Delegate pricing was not published on the conference website at the verification date. Rates are quoted on request through the registration page.
The Park Plaza Victoria London is a two-minute walk from London Victoria rail and Underground stations, and from the Victoria bus and coach terminals. It is a straightforward arrival for anyone coming in by Gatwick Express or Eurostar via a single Underground change.
Yes. The conference site carries an awards section alongside the programme, presented within the two days.
| Official website | https://www.ssgsconference.com/ |
| Satellite Evolution Group | https://www.satelliteevolution.com/ |