Author: Mark Holmes

While there is clearly an international opportunity for hosted payloads, a lot of eyes still remain on the U.S. government. While we have seen a slew of deals earlier this...

Inmarsat has signed a key new deal with RigNet which will see the company distribute Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) and L-band services to the energy sector and Inmarsat sell its retail energy business to RigNet in a deal worth $25 million.

ViaSat is one of the innovators in the satellite industry and its chairman & CEO, Mark Dankberg, a previous winner of our Satellite Executive of the Year award, has been...

16.16 local time Tuesday June 25, French Guiana, will live long in my memory. That was the time when an Arianespace official came on a big screen, and said the...

Telekom Srbija is one of the major telcos and key players across the broadcasting and communications sectors in Serbia, a country with a population of around 7.3 million people. Recently,...

In the last roundtable we spoke to the CTO’s of five regional FSS operators and their plans to invest in new technology. For the MSS sector, there are also a...

Eutelsat will pay more than $1.1 billion to acquire 100 percent of Satélites Mexicanos (Satmex), one of Latin America’s leading satellite operators in a major statement of intent about its ambitions in this region.

Astrium Satellites and Thales Alenia Space have been declared the winners of an €800 million contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense. The recent announcement names Astrium as the lead contractor for the Falcon Eye program, a UAE defense initiative responsible for managing next-generation military surveillance satellites.

SES could be in for a challenging couple of years. A new research report by Morgan Stanley has moved SES to an “underweight” rating. The report highlights a number of risks that could impact the operator in the near future.

Avanti Communications, the U.K. based satellite operator, has issued a trading update, which indicates revenues for 2013 have fallen “below expectations” as of the end of June 2013.