Finance

Viasat is selling $400 million worth of senior notes. In a Wednesday announcement, the satellite operator said the net proceeds will be used to repay debt and to finance general […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, we talk to Norman Haughton, director of IFEC Product and Analytics at Air Canada. Haughton drives Air Canada’s In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) plans. In a […]

Inmarsat has joined the Energy Industry Council (EIC), a trade association for organizations that supply capital goods and services to energy industries worldwide.  Inmarsat said in a Tuesday release that […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has named Vernon Thorp its new director of Global Commercial Sales. In this position he will lead all commercial sales activities for Atlas V and the […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire the ASC Signal division from Communications & Power Industries (CPI) for $35 million in cash, a deal that […]

Lockheed Martin on Monday completed its planned leadership transition with James Taiclet entering as its new president and CEO, succeeding Marillyn Hewson who remains with the company as executive chairman. […]

“It was like driving 100 miles per hour through an intersection and getting blindsided by a truck.” This is how one of the 88 former Bigelow Aerospace employees describes being […]

Azercosmos has signed a partnership agreement with HorizonSat, a provider of telecommunications, internet, and satellite services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to this agreement, HorizonSat will provide data […]

Spaceflight Industries, Inc. has finalized sale of its rideshare business, Spaceflight, Inc., to Mitsui & Co., in partnership with Yamasa Co., the company announced Friday. The sale, which was first […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation features a chat with Hana Bird, an operations engineer at Surrey Satellite Technology in the United Kingdom. Hana is one of the bright young talents […]

Communications & Power Industries (CPI) has completed its purchase of SATCOM Technologies, the antenna systems business of General Dynamics. The Friday announcement came a week after the U.S. Department of […]

We have a great Thursday Morning Conversation this week for you as we go to California once again to talk with one of the most well-known faces in our industry, […]

On Wednesday, Comtech Telecommunications Corp., reported its operating results for its Third Quarter (Q3), which ended April 30, 2020, reporting $135 million in net sales, a 20% decrease from the […]

Intelsat S.A. released its First Quarter (Q1) 2020 results on Thursday, its first quarterly results since filing for bankruptcy in May. The company reported a net loss attributable to Intelsat […]

Astroscale is making a move into Geostationary (GEO) on-orbit servicing. Astroscale U.S. Inc., the U.S. unit of Astroscale Holdings Inc., is acquiring the intellectual property of Effective Space Solutions R&D […]

Retired NASA astronaut Tim Kopra has joined MDA as vice president of Robotics and Space Operations, the Canadian company announced Tuesday. Kopra will be responsible for the work of the […]

AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm dealing in the aerospace, defense, and government services markets, will form a new space-focused platform called Redwire following two recent acquisitions, the […]

DISH Network has hired a former T-Mobile executive to oversee the company’s wireless buildout strategy. The company announced Monday that Dave Mayo is now executive vice president of Network Development and […]

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), is selling its Cobham RAD radiation testing business to Radiation Test Solutions (RTS), which specializes in the design, analysis, and testing of semiconductor devices and materials for […]

Ligado Networks has received more than $100 million in new investments for its work to build 5G Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the company announced Thursday. This funding comes after […]

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said that it is requiring Communications and Power Industries LLC (CPI) to divest its ASC Signal Division for the company to proceed with its planned […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Los Angeles where we catch up with Relativity Space CEO and Co-Founder Tim Ellis, who talks about everything from the niche German […]

Intelsat shareholders are banding together to make sure their interests are represented in the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, according to a letter that was filed with Acting United States […]

In March, Russian state satellite operator RSCC announced that it was disconnecting the Ka-band transponders on its Express-AM6 satellite due to degradation of the spacecraft. The satellite originally entered service […]

Satellite operator Viasat reported record-breaking revenue increases and subscriber growth, and dropped a surprise revelation that it was scrapping its planned Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation for a new Low-Earth Orbit […]

OneWeb has told the FCC that it wants to increase the number of satellites in its constellation to 48,000, the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite operator announced May 27. OneWeb, which […]

“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life” … for satellite. Over the last five or so years, there has been a downward trend of satellite […]

The coronavirus pandemic has swept the globe in one of the worst human tragedies of recent times. It is something that has united us all as we embrace a new […]

In the second of our two-part interview with Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer, we look at some of the key verticals outside of broadcast. Mobility remains a key driver for most […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Virginia where we talk to the very definition of a cybersecurity influencer, Bob Gourley, CTO and co-founder of OODA. Bob will be […]