Satellite 2019 — Free Pass to Meet Us There

In hardware engineering, most conversations about product quality focus on the "outside" metrics: performance benchmarks, environmental ratings, and spec sheets.

Those things matter. But the most revealing moment in the life of a product happens when the marketing ends and the enclosure is opened.

If your systems rely on compute, storage, or embedded hardware, the numbers have already changed under you. RAM that cost $32 a stick last August is now $500. SSDs that were $125 are tracking at the same steep increase. A server that sold for $50,000 six months ago now costs $70,000. And by the end of this month, prices on key components are expected to double again.

This is not a typical cycle. It reflects a structural reallocation of how memory and silicon are produced and who gets access to it.

As our CEO Juliet Correnti put it: "This is a wild time in the market, and there are serious impacts from it. The goal is not to create panic. It is to understand what is happening and offer our customers a clear way to navigate it."

The question is not whether the volatility in the memory market affects your environment. It is how exposed you are. And the best way to answer that is to break your systems down into tiers of volatility.

Last week, the Radeus Labs team headed to Washington, D.C. for SATShow 2026 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and by every measure, this year's event delivered. The show was noticeably bigger than previous years, with a wave of new names on the exhibition floor and a palpable energy that reflected just how much the satellite industry is evolving right now.