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May 1, 2024
Eutelsat has appointed Kevin Steen as the new president and CEO of Eutelsat America Corp (EAC). Steen will also continue in his existing role as president and CEO of OneWeb Technologies (OWT). EAC and OWT completed a combination earlier this year and will go to market as a single EAC entity. Eutelsat announced the appointment,…
April 30, 2024
The key moment in the MDA Space story in 2023 took place at SATELLITE 2023, when MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley met with Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg. The meeting would lead to MDA Space securing the contract to build Telesat’s much anticipated Lightspeed LEO satellite constellation. It was a signature point in a banner year…
April 18, 2024
Italian service provider Telespazio has a new CEO. The company’s board of directors appointed Gabriele Pieralli as CEO on April 16, Telespazio announced. Pieralli has been Telespazio COO since June 2023. He is the former CEO of Sirio Panel, which was later incorporated into Leonardo. He held leadership positions at Leonardo and was named managing…
April 16, 2024
Satellite operator ABS “Agility Beyond Space” has appointed former O3b Networks CEO Mark Rigolle as the company’s new CEO. He will be based in the ABS office in Dubai, UAE. ABS highlighted Rigolle’s experience in multi-orbit constellations. Rigolle joins ABS from Rivada Space Networks, where he was COO. He was previously CFO of SES and…