Yona Ovadia has stepped down from his position as CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. The Israeli satellite networking company confirmed that its CFO and Chief Integration Officer Adi Sfadia will immediately take over for Ovadia as an interim CEO. Gilat reached an agreement to be acquired by Comtech Telecommunications in January. That agreement initially included…

Hispasat extended its European and American maritime market partnership with solutions provider Syntelix for another two years, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator announced July 2. Syntelix said it would use more Hispasat capacity from the H30W-6 satellite, located in the 30 degrees West orbital position, in order to expand its connectivity offering to the European…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued four, six-month contracts to Ball Aerospace for studies related to mission, spacecraft, and instrument concepts for future operational weather architectures and Earth Observation (EO) capabilities. The five study contracts include: the Auroral Imager in Tundra project that Ball is working on with Computational Physics; the Ball Operational…

DISH signed a multi-year agreement with a U.S.-based cloud services company it hopes will help advance its mission to launch a standalone 5G network. Altiostar is the developer of a cloud-native microservice-based Open RAN (O-RAN) solution designed to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning and enable 4G and 5G applications. DISH has obtained Altiostar's O-RAN…