Rocket Lab’s “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” mission on July 4 failed when the Electron vehicle experienced an anomaly after stage separation. The vehicle was lost, and payloads for Canon Electronics Inc., Planet, and Inspace were not delivered to orbit. The issue occurred approximately four minutes into the flight after the Electron rocket took off…

Yona Ovadia has stepped down from his position as CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. The Israeli satellite networking company confirmed that its CFO and Chief Integration Officer Adi Sfadia will immediately take over for Ovadia as an interim CEO. Gilat reached an agreement to be acquired by Comtech Telecommunications in January. That agreement initially included…

Sky Perfect JSAT (JSAT) is considering a long-term play in several new markets, including the Earth Observation (EO) and data analytics markets, JSAT Executive Officer and Group President of Global Business Mitsutoshi Akao told Via Satellite. JSAT, Asia's largest satellite operator based in Japan, is working closely with U.S.-based imagery analytics companies Planet and Orbital…

This week's Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) goes all the way to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to talk to Masood Mahmood, the CEO of Yahsat, one of the most influential satellite operators in the Middle East. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about everything from life under lockdown in the UAE, which…