Visit Site Top Stories for the week of June 14, 2019 Business Going Private May Strengthen Inmarsat, Analysts Say Shareholders of London-based satellite operator Inmarsat decided in mid-May that the company will be sold to Triton Bidco, a newly formed private consortium. Satellite industry analysts… June 11, 2019

Mobility Does the Connected Aircraft Need Electronically Steerable Antennas? The future form, fit and function of commercial airplane antennas that enable high speed internet connectivity for passengers and pilots will be lower in profile… June 12, 2019 Broadband My Takeaways from SATELLITE 2019 As Chair of the SATELLITE conference, I am privileged to get an exciting behind-the-scenes view into the planning process that happens in the months leading… June 7, 2019 Broadcasting AT&T's DirectTV, Dish May Merge Satellite TV Divisions AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe… June 10, 2019 Imagery and Sensing Lockheed Martin Develops Satellite Imagery Recognition System Lockheed Martin developed a satellite imagery recognition system using open-source deep learning libraries to quickly identify and classify objects or targets in large areas across… June 5, 2019 Business NRO's Betty Sapp Elected to Ball Corp. Board of Directors Betty Sapp, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the first woman in history to hold that position, was elected to join Ball… May 28, 2019 Government/Military Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS III Software, Harris Delivers Payload Lockheed Martin delivered the GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) software upgrade to the U.S. Air Force's current GPS ground control system on May 22. The… June 11, 2019 Innovation Jeff Bezos Discusses New Satellite Investments at re:Mars At its re:Mars conference, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage today to be “interviewed” by Jenny Freshwater, Amazon’s director of forecasting. As any AWS… June 7, 2019 Ground Systems Viasat Builds Real-Time Earth Ground Station in Australia Viasat revealed its plans to launch a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Alice Springs, Australia. Viasat has partnered with the Center for Appropriate Technology Ltd (CfAT)… June 11, 2019 Business SAR Data Disruptors Partner Up Under the terms of a new partnership agreement, Finnish satellite data services company ICEYE will provide Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to Ursa's energy customers in… June 7, 2019

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