Focus: Mergers and Acquisitions

Firefly Aerospace is acquiring smallsat rideshare company Spaceflight for an undisclosed amount, and will end Spaceflight’s rideshare business after its current contracts. The company announced the deal last week on...

York Space Systems has completed the acquisition of Emergent Space Technologies, a developer of mission software and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) solutions for multi-spacecraft missions headquartered in Maryland with...

Inmarsat CEO Rajeev Suri will step down from his role with the close of the Viasat acquisition, Inmarsat announced Friday. Suri has been nominated to serve on Viasat’s board of...

Private equity firm Advent International has closed its acquisition of Maxar, including a minority investment from British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Maxar will no longer be a publicly traded company...

Maxar’s shareholders approved the acquisition by Advent International, at a price of $53 in cash per share. Approximately 99.6% of the shares that voted in a special meeting voted in...

SES confirmed the operator is in talks for a potential combination with fellow operator Intelsat. SES issued a statement Wednesday morning after Bloomberg reported the satellite companies are nearing a...

Gilat Satellite Networks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DataPath to boost its presence in the U.S. defense market, the satellite ground tech company announced March 9. Gilat said...

Commercial space station company Vast is acquiring Launcher for its space tug and hosted payload products. Vast announced the acquisition on Tuesday, terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Vast...

Intuitive Machines began trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday after using a special purpose acquisition company merger (SPAC) to go public. Intuitive Machines is a space infrastructure company to supply...

Aerospace and defense engineering firm Boecore has acquired space software company Orbit Logic. Boecore said this acquisition will strengthen its software development and specialized mission operations capabilities and bring new...