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Top Stories for the week of April 2, 2021
Business
Intelsat Reports $912M Net Loss in 2020, Withdraws From OneWeb Lawsuit
The impact of COVID-19 on Intelsat's business became much clearer in the operator's 2020 end-of-year financial results, in which it reported $912 million in full…
March 31, 2021
Business
Inmarsat Appoints New Marketing and Commercial Officers
Inmarsat continues to reshape its management team under the leadership of new CEO Rajeev Suri after the surprise departure of Rupert Pearce in February. The…
March 26, 2021
Business
Speedcast’s New CEO Joe Spytek Wants to Transform the Company Post-Bankruptcy
Speedcast’s acquisition spree in the 2010’s made it one of the world’s largest remote telecommunications service providers. But, 2020 presented steep challenges to the company’s…
March 19, 2021
Mobility
Hanwha Systems Plans 2,000-Satellite LEO Constellation for Mobility Applications
Hanwha Systems, a South Korean defense company, plans to build a 2,000-satellite constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to serve mobility applications.  In a May 30…
March 31, 2021
5G
Inmarsat Sues Dutch Government Over 5G Spectrum Allocation Plan
Inmarsat is seeking an injunction against the Dutch government in a Netherlands civil court to review spectrum allocation changes it made in a recent update…
March 29, 2021
Government/Military
OneWeb Partners With TrustComm as US Military Distribution Partner 
TrustComm, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite communications application specialist, is now a distribution partner of OneWeb. The companies announced an MoU on March…
March 26, 2021
Innovation
How Software-Defined Satellites Will Shape Communications
When Intelsat kicked off 2021 with an announcement that it had ordered two Airbus OneSat Geostationary (GEO) software-defined satellites to drive new applications, the service…
March 19, 2021
Mobility
Maritime End Users Discuss Satellite Connectivity for a Post-COVID World
This article in Via Satellite's April edition is available for early access for our members.  There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit…
March 8, 2021
Podcast
Farmer Charlie’s Space-Powered Smart Agritech Platform
Betty Bonnardel and I share a unique connection to the Alps. In 2015, I traveled to Northern Italy’s Dolomites to research my family history. Before…
March 29, 2021
Business
Rocket Lab's Peter Beck Explains SPAC Strategy, Growth Targets, and Plans for Neutron
New Zealand-based smallsat launcher Rocket Lab made headlines earlier this month when it announced plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC)…
March 19, 2021
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