Financial market watchers are indicating it’s time for innovation by the Geostationary Earth Orbit, or GEO, operators due to increased competition in the satellite sector, price pressure and risk of oversupply from Low Earth Orbit networks. One research analyst says the proprietary and specialized GEO infrastructure of the past is weighing down space industry veterans who must rapidly innovate as competition mounts. Daniel Bliss, a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools, and director of ASU’s Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures, talks about the engineering and technical challenges of ensuring the effective performance space satellite networks.