E-letter: Briefs

SES has seen an overall fall in revenues and profits for 2020, however its Networks business continues to see growth. The satellite operator announced its full year results on Feb....

Verizon Wireless and AT&T were the top bidders in the FCC‘s C-band auction, which grossed more than $81 billion. The FCC on Wednesday announced the top winning bidders, 21 bidders...

Lockheed Martin has awarded L3Harris Technologies contracts totaling $137 million for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites. Lockheed Martin is the...

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) has been awarded a Phase 3 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) contract to develop an additional six satellites for the Blackjack program. The company announced...

Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce is leaving the company at the end of this month. He will be replaced by former Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri, who will start March 1. Pearce...

Yahsat has signed two new defense strategic partnerships. Yahsat Government Solutions, the company’s dedicated government arm, has signed MoUs with NIMR, a manufacturer of combat-proven wheeled military vehicles, and another...

SES has signed a number of new deals in the maritime/cruise sector worth around 220 million euros ($267 million). Four major cruise companies have now entered into long-term strategic framework...

Orbit Fab, the San Francisco-based start-up that is building gas stations for spacecraft in orbit, has entered into a technology partnership with non-toxic small satellite propulsion supplier Benchmark Space Systems...

FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has put together a draft order to auction mid-band spectrum in the 3.45-3.55 GHz band for 5G deployment through an auction that would begin in...

Redwire on Tuesday said it has acquired Deployable Space Systems (DSS), a supplier of deployable solar arrays and other space structures, in a deal that adds a new line of products...