Author: Owen D. Kurtin

The launch services marketplace always has been a tough place to earn a living. These days, there is a combination of strong demand and heavy backload, high barriers to entry,...

The December closing of ViaSat’s $568 million cash and stock acquisition of Ka-band satellite broadband provider WildBlue, following November’s $75 million cash investment by SES into Google-backed startup O3b, which...

Last April, we reported on the February 2009 loan commitments extended to satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Radio by Liberty Media, which controls satellite television broadcaster DirecTV. Liberty Media functioned...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the final report of the Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, otherwise known as the Augustine report, on Oct...

This column has devoted substantial attention this year to the growth of U.S. government/Department of Defense procurement of commercial satellite capacity and network solutions, but mostly in the context of...

In a few of the past columns , we discussed the expanding role of commercial satellite capacity and network services for military and other government use, the role of integrators or aggregators serving as

Innovative businesses offering new services to the public — and whose growth is measured in subscribers — are confronted with tricky math and public and investor relations tied to a...

In June, we discussed the procurement of commercial satellite services by the U.S. government and particularly the Department of Defense under the Defense Information Systems Network Satellite Transmission Services-Global (DSTS-G)...

U.S. government and Department of Defense procurement of commercial satellite services is handled by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under a regime called the Defense Information Systems Network...

In March, we took a break from financial issues affecting the satellite sector specifically to discuss general economic conditions and the Obama Administration’s fiscal stimulus package. We also examined those...