Focus: People
June 4, 2020
We have a great Thursday Morning Conversation this week for you as we go to California once again to talk with one of the most well-known faces in our industry, Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO of Viasat. We talk Tiger and Rory, basketball, music and concerts, recommended movies and TV during lockdown. And for those…
June 3, 2020
Virgin Galactic, the Richard Branson-owned company working toward commercial spaceflight with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, last month announced a partnership with NASA to develop technically feasible high Mach vehicles. Through this partnership with NASA, Virgin Galactic is looking to develop a vehicle for safe and efficient high speed air travel, with a focus on customer experience…
June 3, 2020
Retired NASA astronaut Tim Kopra has joined MDA as vice president of Robotics and Space Operations, the Canadian company announced Tuesday. Kopra will be responsible for the work of the robotics and space operations teams at MDA sites in Ontario cities Brampton and Ottawa; Saint-Hubert in Quebec, and Houston. Kopra served in the U.S. Army…
June 2, 2020
DISH Network has hired a former T-Mobile executive to oversee the company’s wireless buildout strategy. The company announced Monday that Dave Mayo is now executive vice president of Network Development and responsible for deploying DISH’s plans for the nation's first standalone 5G network. Mayo was senior vice president at T-Mobile, where he led the company’s Internet…