Finance

AXESS Networks has formed a new business unit, AXESS Networks Maritime, which will target new customers in the maritime market. The new business unit started operating at the beginning of […]

BlackSky Holdings owns and operates its own satellites for geospatial imagery collection, but CEO Brian O’Toole sees the company as more of a software company. Its satellite imagery is brought […]

GI Partners, a U.S.-based investor in data infrastructure businesses has reached an agreement to acquire Internet of Things (IoT) provider Orbcomm in an all-cash deal that values Orbcomm at $1.1 […]

SES plans to establish a U.S. operations and technology hub in Bristow, Virginia. The satellite operator will invest $17 million to consolidate operations, technology, engineering, and support functions at the […]

Space-based cellular broadband network provider AST SpaceMobile is the latest special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to go public after it completed its combination with New Providence Acquisition Corp. AST SpaceMobile […]

MDA, the Canadian space technology company which once merged to create Maxar Technologies and was then sold off to form its own business, is now a publicly traded company after successfully […]

OneWeb has appointed Per Borgklint as its new chief commercial officer, the company announced April 6. Borgklint has an extensive background in the telecoms arena and has held key positions […]

Voyager Space Holdings has completed its acquisition of The Launch Company, it announced April 2. The acquisition was first announced in November 2020. The Launch Company develops standardized hardware and […]

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has joined Viasat’s board of directors. The satellite operator announced Thursday that Bridenstine will serve as a Class II director. Viasat’s board now consists of […]

The impact of COVID-19 on Intelsat‘s business became much clearer in the operator’s 2020 end-of-year financial results, in which it reported $912 million in full year losses and a drop […]

Hiber, the European satellite and communications start-up, secured 26 million euros ($30.62 million) in funding to ramp up its plans for a satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) service. The European […]

Smallsat launcher ABL Space Systems has closed its Series B funding round of $170 million led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Existing ABL investors […]

Inmarsat continues to reshape its management team under the leadership of new CEO Rajeev Suri after the surprise departure of Rupert Pearce in February. The company has tapped ex-Nokia Chief […]

Redwire has officially added its name to the list of space companies going public through a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC). The space infrastructure conglomerate, which includes recently acquired entities such […]

Avanti Communications has appointed Vikas Grover as its new chief technology officer, the company announced Tuesday. Grover was previously the founding chief information officer at OneWeb, where he led global […]

Speedcast’s acquisition spree in the 2010’s made it one of the world’s largest remote telecommunications service providers. But, 2020 presented steep challenges to the company’s remote oil and gas and […]

New Zealand-based smallsat launcher Rocket Lab made headlines earlier this month when it announced plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) and set a $4.1 billion […]

After having been of the biggest critics of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations like OneWeb, Tom Choi, chairman of the Airspace Internet Exchange, is now putting plans together for his own […]

RigNet saw its overall Full Year 2020 revenues decrease 14.4% compared to 2019, due to a continued economic slump in the energy sector. But, the company is beginning to see […]

Capella Space has hired Dan Getman as the new vice president of Product, the company announced March 12. Getman joins Capella Space from Descartes Labs, where he was director of […]

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Juan Pablo Cofino is the new regional vice president, CEO of Eutelsat Americas, Eutelsat announced March 11. This is a significant appointment for the company. Cofino had been regional vice […]

Speedcast has successfully completed its restructuring process and emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings, the company announced Thursday. Speedcast is now under the ownership of Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and its affiliates.  […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday evening that its stockholders have approved the $4.4 billion sale of the company to Lockheed Martin, clearing a hurdle on the deal that is still expected to […]

A spree of space startups — Rocket Lab, Spire Global, BlackSky, Momentus, Astra, and AST SpaceMobile — have recently announced plans to go public through Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), […]

Isaac Angel is the new chairman of the board of Gilat Satellite Networks, the company announced March 9. Angel takes over from Dov Baharav who has stepped down and retired […]

Avanti has signed an interesting partnership with one of the United Kingdom’s big hopes for the Tokyo Olympic Games on International Women’s Day. The company is partnering with British 400m […]

In this new round-up, Via Satellite looks at recent research reports in the space and telecommunications arena. This installment features a look at the economics of the Starlink terminal, space […]

Chuck Beames, executive chairman of York Space Systems and founder of the SmallSat Alliance, is joining the board of advisors for Slingshot Aerospace, a space situational awareness company based in […]

Telesat reported its 2020 financial results on Thursday, with a 10% decline in revenue compared to the prior year, and forecasted a $356 billion total addressable market (TAM) for its […]