Finance

If things go according to plan with SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the satellite industry could soon see the era of constellations made up of tens of thousands of […]

Rocket Lab has reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a Toronto-based satellite hardware company, the small satellite launch company said March 16. “By combining the experience and capabilities of both companies, Rocket […]

MPIQC Inc., which provides electronic contract manufacturing solutions and services, is moving into its new U.S. base at the Space Life Science Lab (SLSL) in Exploration Park in the Cape […]

Lockheed Martin has named board American Tower Corporation CEO James Taiclet as president and CEO, effective June 15. Tacilet, 59, has been on Lockheed Martin’s board since 2018, and will […]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Space Foundation has postponed the 36th Space Symposium, which was scheduled for March 30 through April 2 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Space Foundation announced […]

NanoAvionics is opening a new sales and engineering support office in Columbia, Illinois, which will be the first satellite factory in Illinois and the Midwest. The Columbia facility is the […]

Viasat has announced a Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) signed with Blacktree Technology, an Australian-based communications systems design and integration company, in November 2019. The companies say the agreement will help […]

  As SES announced its 2019 financial results earlier this week, the satellite operator also set forward a new strategic plan which could ultimately result in its Video and Networks […]

Maxar Technologies’ financial results for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) capped off a year of revenue decline as the company reported revenues of $410 million for Q4, down about 2% compared […]

Hispasat and PLD Space have agreed to work together to define the technical features and analyzing compatibility to launch services on board MIURA 5 launcher. This agreement that these companies […]

Rakuten and Vodafone are the lead investors in a just-announced space-based cellular broadband network called SpaceMobile from AST & Science. AST & Science plans to create a constellation of Low-Earth-Orbit […]

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm specializing in aerospace and defense, has acquired smallsat manufacturer Adcole Maryland Aerospace (AMA) from Adcole Corporation, a portfolio company of Artemis Capital Partners. […]

On the same day that SES delivered its 2019 financial results in which revenue was below expectations, the company also announced it is considering separating its Networks business.  The company […]

PredaSAR Corporation, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) company, has completed a $25 million seed financing round, led by Miami-based investor, Rokk3r Fuel. PredaSAR also named retired U.S. Air Force Maj. […]

Relativity Space is now moving to a huge new facility in California as it looks to continue its growth. The company announced Friday that it has secured a new headquarters […]

Telesat released its financial results for the three-month and one-year periods that ended Dec. 31, 2019. For 2019, the Canadian satellite operator reported consolidated revenue of $911 million, which was […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions reported its Fourth Quarter (Q4) 2019, reporting $185.1 million in revenue, a 12.6% increase over Q4 2018. The company reported Q4 2019 net income of […]

Iridium released its financial results for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2019 on Tuesday, reporting a Q4 net loss of $107.9 million, but also Q4 total revenue of $138.9 million, […]

SpaceX’s roadmap to Mars now includes the Port of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council approved a permit Tuesday that allows the Elon Musk-led company to use a site […]

U.S. satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems may have to shut its Indian operations due to unpaid levies owed to the government, which could put thousands of banking services at […]

A group of telecommunications, technology, aviation, and aerospace companies including Airbus Defence and Space and Softbank Corp., announced a partnership on Friday called the HAPS Alliance, to promote the use […]

In January, CBPE Capital announced that it had invested in satellite technology vendor ETL Systems, and is open to making further investments in the satellite arena. Jolyon Latimer a CBPE […]

Tarana Wireless Inc. announced on Thursday that in January, it received $24 million of follow-on preferred equity with commitments for $36 million of additional preferred equity through October 2020, fully […]

In its financial results released Thursday for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) that ended on Dec. 31, 2019, Echostar reported $499 million in revenue. This was an increase of about $45 […]

The day before Intelsat reported full-year 2019 results that surpassed analysts’ projections, the operator sparked a feud with rival operator SES over an ex parte filing with the FCC requesting adjustments […]

Last week, Spaceflight Industries — made up of launch service provider Spaceflight, and geospatial intelligence business BlackSky — announced a deal to sell Spaceflight to Japanese company Mitsui & Co., […]

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has completed a new satellite production facility at the company’s Kamakura Works in Kamakura, Japan. Between this facility and existing facilities, Mitsubishi Electric’s plans to increase annual […]

DISH Network Corporation reported its Fourth Quarter (Q4) 2019 revenue totaled $3.24 billion, a decrease of 2.1% from the $3.31 billion in revenue for 2018 Q4. Net income attributable to […]

Blue Origin opened its rocket engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama on Monday. The company plans for this 350,000 square-foot engine manufacturing facility to conduct high rate production of the […]

Eutelsat released its financial results for the first half of its 2019/20 Fiscal Year (FY), and First Half revenues of its verticals were down 4.9% like-for-like compared to 2018. The […]