Intelsat announced a refresh of part of its executive suite on Thursday, with new hires for chief financial officer, chief commercial officer, commercial aviation, and corporate communications. These changes come after Intelsat brought on former Raytheon executive David Wajsgras as CEO in March after exiting bankruptcy in February.  Anthony (Toby) O’Brien will become Intelsat CFO. He…

Space-based cellular broadband company AST SpaceMobile hired finance and telecom banking veteran Sean Wallace as its new executive vice president and CFO. Wallace previously served as CFO for global internet service provider Cogent Communications. He will start his new job at AST SpaceMobile on May 10, replacing AST's former financial lead executive Tom Severson, who…

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo named Richard DalBello as the new director of NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) on Wednesday. DalBello will officially begin his duties on May 9.  OSC works to foster economic growth in the U.S. commercial space industry. The office issues operating licenses for private remote sensing space systems and is also…

A group of space companies have raised nearly $1 million to support humanitarian aid in Ukraine, forming the Space Industry for Ukraine (SIFU) group. HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini said in a Tuesday announcement that he visited the Poland-Ukraine border last month and wanted the space community to play a humanitarian role in addition to…