E-letter: Briefs

Bharti Global will invest $500 million more into OneWeb, fully funding the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation company and making Bharti Global the company’s largest shareholder.  In the deal announced June...

Speedcast has completed testing on Telesat’s phase one Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite for Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras.  Over nine tests, Speedcast measured throughput, latency, packet loss, and jitter across applications...

Gilat Satellite Networks has won more business in the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) arena, the company announced June 28. The company has received orders of $9 million for support of gateways...

Christopher Kubasik has taken the helm of L3Harris as CEO, succeeding William Brown. This leadership transition was planned and first announced with the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corp....

OneWeb is about to get more involved in the broadband space in the United Kingdom. The operator signed an MoU with BT, to explore the provision of improved digital communication...

Fredrik Gustavsson is the new Chief Strategy Officer of Inmarsat. The company announced his appointment June 28.  Gustavsson is Inmarsat’s third executive-level appointment in three months and follows a wide-ranging...

Virgin Orbit has appointed a SpaceX veteran to be its new Vice President of Flight and Launch. It has appointed Tyler Grinnell to the position, the company announced June 25....

NXTCOMM has won a new deal with L3Technologies, the company announced June 25. L3Harris Technologies has selected NXTCOMM to develop an Electronically Steerable Antenna (ESA) to support U.S. Department of...

Microsoft, which has been becoming more and part of the space landscape in recent years, has announced that it is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC). By...

Iridium has won a new $30 million contract from the United States Army, the company announced June 24. It will develop a payload to be hosted on small satellites that...