Visit Site Top Stories for the week of December 4, 2020 Broadband New Viasat CEO Baldridge Explains Global Approach in Light of Eutelsat Deal Soon after naming new CEO Rick Baldridge, Viasat announced a major move in Europe that the company will  buy the remaining 51% share of Euro… November 30, 2020

Innovation Africa Unites its Diverse and Rapidly Growing Space Industry Africa’s space community leaders want the rest of the world to stop referring to the continent as a homogenous, “developing” market. They do not want… October 16, 2020 Government/Military Air Force to End Launch Services Agreements with Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin by End of Year The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force plan to end Launch Services Agreement (LSA) funding for Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin by the end of this year… December 2, 2020 Broadband SpaceX to Expand Starlink Beta Tests in 2021  SpaceX plans to expand its Starlink beta tests in a notable way in early 2021, the company announced with its latest launch of Starlink satellites… November 25, 2020 Opinion The Upside-Down Business Models of LEO It is not easy to build a successful Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Aside from the technical and regulatory challenges, there are many business and… November 24, 2020 Business Telesat to Merge With Loral Space to Form Public Company Telesat Canada is combining with major shareholder Loral Space & Communications to form one public company to finance its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.  Telesat Canada… November 24, 2020 Business Intelsat Completes Gogo Commercial Aviation Acquisition  Intelsat has completed its acquisition of Gogo’s Commercial Aviation business, the satellite operator announced Tuesday. The $400 million cash deal forms a vertically integrated In-Flight… December 1, 2020 Ground Systems Kymeta Launches u8 Antenna for 'Always-On' Land Mobility Kymeta’s next-generation u8 antenna is now commercially available, the company announced Monday. Kymeta is pitching the land mobility Ku-band antenna as a communication solution for… November 30, 2020 Opinion Demystifying Software-Defined Networks for Satellite Software-defined networks, commonly known as SD-WAN, have the potential to improve the efficiency of applications with profound impact on the way data is transferred to… December 3, 2020 Government/Military Democrats win a Majority of Satellite Industry Employee Donations in 2020 U.S. Election According to data pulled from the U.S. Federal Election Commission's (FEC) online database, a solid majority — roughly 75% — of individual donations to politicians… December 4, 2020

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