Finance
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Finance
Orbcomm Q3 Service Revenue Spike Offset by Sales Lag
Orbcomm, a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IOT) solutions, saw mixed results in its reporting of Q3 2018. The company saw revenues increase from $69.4 million […]
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Finance
Intelsat Reports Stable Q3 Results, but Dip in Intelsat SA
Intelsat revealed its latest set of results today, which saw revenues stabilize, but its net losses saw a fairly dramatic increase. This was one of the highlights of its third […]
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Finance
SES Q3 Results are not Surprising, but What About Video?
SES saw a significant fall in its net profits for the first nine months of 2018. This was one of the highlights of the company’s results announced Oct. 26. Net […]
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Connectivity
RBC Capital Supports C-Band Alliance’s New FCC Proposal
Toronto-based financial services firm RBC Capital raised its price targets on the satellite operator members of the C-Band Alliance after the organization sent an updated proposal to the U.S. Federal […]
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Finance
Iridium Sees Decrease in Net Income, Increase in OEBITDA in Q3 2018
Iridium revealed its financial results for the third quarter of 2018 and updated its full-year 2018 outlook. Net loss was $12.9 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, for the third […]
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Finance
Boeing Defense, Space, and Security Q3 Revenue Increases to $5.7 Billion
Boeing Defense, Space, and Security third-quarter revenue increased to $5.7 billion. According to the release, this was driven by increased volume across government satellites, KC-46 Tanker, F/A-18 and weapons. Third-quarter […]
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Finance
SiriusXM Q3 Revenue Reaches Record $1.5 Billion
SiriusXM‘s third quarter 2018 revenue reached $1.5 billion, an increase of 6 percent versus the prior year period. The company’s net income totaled $343 million in the third quarter 2018, […]
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Finance
Lockheed Martin Space Sees Increase in Sales for 3rd Quarter 2018
Lockheed Martin Space Systems saw net sales in the third quarter of 2018 increase $250 million, or 11 percent, compared to the same period in 2017. According to the release, the increase was primarily […]
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Mobility
C-Band Alliance Offers More 5G Spectrum to FCC
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) has changed its proposal to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), adding up to 200 MHz of mid-band C-band downlink spectrum to support 5G wireless deployment. […]
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Finance
Big Primes Squeezing into a Smallsat World
Following Boeing’s acquisition of Millennium Space Systems in August, all of the leading prime contractors in the manufacturing sector have made a play in the small satellite market. Lockheed Martin’s […]
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Finance
Vector’s $70 Million in New Funding to be Used for Rocket Manufacturing Facility
Vector, a microsatellite launch company, has secured $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Kodem Growth Partners, in conjunction with Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. Vector plans […]
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Finance
Atlas Space Operations Names Sean Casey VP of Business Development
Sean Casey was named the new Vice President (VP) of business development for Atlas Space Operations. Casey brings more than 25 years of leadership experience and subject-matter-expertise. He is also […]
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Finance
Boeing Establishes New Disruptive Computing and Networks Division
Boeing has established a new Disruptive Computing and Networks (DC&N) organization within the company to develop computing and communications solutions for advanced commercial and government aerospace applications. By leveraging core […]
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Finance
Axesat: In a Changing Industry, Customer Service is Key
In an industry that is constantly changing, getting more competitive, and commoditizing, it is vital to differentiate. It is no longer enough to have a wide-ranging portfolio, meet quality standards, […]
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Finance
Eutelsat Appoints Former Technicolor Exec as Chief Innovation Officer
Gary Donnan will join Eutelsat Communications on Oct. 29 as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rodolphe Belmer. Donnan is tasked with defining Eutelsat’s innovation roadmap, and […]
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Finance
Harris, L3 Technologies in Deal Billed as Merger of Equals
Harris and L3 Technologies on Sunday morning revealed a blockbuster deal that would create the sixth largest U.S. defense contractor with about $16 billion in sales and a market capitalization […]
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Connectivity
Fan of the C-Band? Industry Analyst is Cautious About SES
Berenberg Satellite Equity Analyst Sarah Simon released a comprehensive report on SES, and went into detail on how she sees the C-band situation in the United States directly impacting the […]
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Finance
Accion CEO Talks Boeing Deal and Propelling GEO Aspirations
Accion Systems Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder Natalya Bailey admitted to Via Satellite that strategic partner discussions began in March this year, as the company looked to execute the […]
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Connectivity
US Space Robotics Market Expected to Reach $4 Billion by 2023
The value of the U.S. space robotics market is expected to grow to $4.36 billion by 2023. Growing importance of on-orbit satellite servicing, on-orbit manufacturing, assembly in space, and focus […]
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Connectivity
Energy Executives: Telecom Innovation is Driving a Merge of IT, OT Worlds
Speakers from more than a dozen major oil and gas production companies converged at Houston’s OilComm / FleetComm conference last week to explain why IIoT, cyber security, data analytics, AI, […]
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Finance
Orbital Insights to Provide Geospatial Analytics to RBC Capital Markets
Orbital Insight, a provider of geospatial analytics, and RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), formed a global partnership giving RBC Capital […]
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Finance
Comtech Sees Sales Increase in FY2018 4th Quarter
Comtech Telecommunications reported its operating results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended July 31, 2018. Net sales increased, as sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 were $167.4 […]
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Finance
Boeing Completes Acquisition of Millennium Space Systems
Boeing completed the acquisition of Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile small-satellite solutions. Millennium Space Systems will operate under Boeing Phantom Works as a subsidiary called Millennium Space Systems, A […]
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Finance
SiriusXM Acquires Pandora for Approximately $3.5 Billion
SiriusXM will acquire Pandora Media in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.5 billion. The combination creates the world’s largest audio entertainment company, with more than $7 billion in expected pro-forma revenue in […]
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Finance
GHGSat Raises $10M in Financing led by OGCI Climate Investments
GHGSat, a company providing global emissions monitoring services, raised $10 million in Series A2 financing led by OGCI Climate Investments. Building on GHGSat’s work in detecting and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from […]
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Connectivity
Ten Talking Points from World Satellite Business Week and IBC Show
After eight days of being at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris and IBC Show in Amsterdam and having talked MEO, LEO, GEO, Ka-, Ku-, C-, V-, Q- and […]
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Finance
MDA to Deliver SAR Information for Maritime Surveillance
MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, signed a multi-million dollar contract with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) for a one-year maritime surveillance program that includes the delivery of synthetic […]
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Finance
Telecom’s Satellite Investment Trends: Bankers Weigh In
Will telecom companies invest in satellite assets and players in the next few years? This was one of the burning questions on a major finance panel to kick off Euroconsult’s […]
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Connectivity
Boeing Invests in Optical Ground Stations Through BridgeSat
Boeing will invest in BridgeSat, an optical communications solutions company working to enable the future of connectivity in space through a network of ground stations and proprietary space terminals. BridgeSat […]
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Finance
OneWeb Appoints New CEO, taps Uphold
Former Uphold Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adrian Steckel will become then new CEO of OneWeb, one of the world’s largest, satellite-based broadband initiatives. Steckel remains chairman of Uphold. OneWeb aims […]



























