E-letter: Briefs

The plot has thickened yet again in Iridium and Ligado’s dispute over spectrum, with Iridium slamming Ligado’s most recent analysis as “divorced from the legal reality that Ligado exists in...

Arianespace shareholders voted unanimously to convert the launch operator to a Simplified Joint-Stock (SAS) company at its annual general meeting held in Paris. The modification aims to streamline and modernize...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, a U.S. military integrator awarded its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, a follow-on contract for more than...

Aerial & Maritime (A&M) has entered into a mutual data service agreement with Spanish company Aistech. Both parties will gain access to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data for monitoring commercial...

Orbital ATK announced it successfully concluded 17 years of mission support for NASA’s Earth Observing 1 (EO 1) satellite. NASA decommissioned the spacecraft, built by Orbital ATK for NASA’s Goddard...

As labor protests continue to roil in Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace has placed its Ariane 5 VA236 launch, originally scheduled for March 21, on indefinite hold. According to the company,...

Intelsat announced that eProcess International, an affiliate of pan-African banking conglomerate Ecobank Group, has signed an agreement to use the Intelsat Epic platform to expand and strengthen its corporate banking...

Thuraya Telecommunications announced that Chief Technology Officer Ahmed Al Shamsi has been appointed as temporary acting chief executive officer of the company, after the resignation of previous CEO Samer Halawi....

Aireon announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Spanish Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) Enaire. Through this agreement, Enaire will begin investigating the safety, efficiency and environmental...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that its command and control technologies group, which is part of its government solutions segment, received orders totaling approximately $24 million by an unnamed international space agency...