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For EchoStar, Brazil a broadband success for Hughes but a DTH failure 8 years after winning orbital slot
PARIS — EchoStar’s experience in Brazil mirrors its broader financial results in the past couple of years: Good news in broadband for the Hughes Network Systems division, and disappointment at...
Smallsat builder AAC meets EBITDA, revenue targets, but needs cash and is replacing its CEO
PARIS — Small satellite manufacturer AAC reached its goal of becoming EBITDA positive in the last three months of 2018 but said it will need to raise fresh funding soon and has decided to replace...
Intelsat’s capex-saving measures to increase opex and cut EBITDA starting this year
PARIS — The flip side of Intelsat’s lower spending on new satellites will show up in 2019 as higher operating expenses to meet the cost of new capacity that it did not finance up front, and the...
Satellite ground terminal builder Ovzon reports flat revenue, higher losses as it finances its own satellite
PARIS — Swedish mobile satellite ground terminal provider Ovzon AB, which plans to launch its own satellite in 2021, reported a 3.4% increase in revenue in 2018 on stronger terminal sales and a...
Spaceflight/Thales Alenia Space-backed LeoStella starts BlackSky satellite production
TUKWILA, Washington — Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky constellation of 1-meter-resolution Earth observation satellites expects to generate revenue this spring from its first two satellites, with...
EU space program proposal and ESA’s response to it show continued battle of ambitions
PARIS — The underlying tensions between the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been laid bare in a commission document preparing its space strategy and ESA Director-General...
UK triggers ESA support for 2nd-generation OneWeb satellite technology; Canada also in
PARIS — The British government has agreed to invest $23.2 million over about three years into a European Space Agency (ESA) program to prepare technologies for a second-generation OneWeb satellite...
Arianespace sees a shadow of a hope for ESA procurement reform, questions rocket-reuse value in Europe
SEATTLE, Washington — Arianespace’s chief executive said the European Space Agency (ESA) would re-examine its geographic-return policy as it applies to development of new-generation rockets when ESA...
Eutelsat says video revenue will be stable this year; ramp of broadband in Africa slow but promising
SEATTLE, Washington — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat told investors to look past a 2.5% decline in the company’s all-important video revenue for the six months ending Dec. 31 to focus on a...
OneWeb’s losing its believer-in-chief at Airbus; successor’s view TBD; Viasat says GEO looks ever better
PARIS — Outgoing Airbus CEO Tom Enders defended his decision to make a major commitment to the New Space business by investing in the OneWeb broadband satellite constellation, and sought to persuade...
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For EchoStar, Brazil a broadband success for Hughes but a DTH failure 8 years after winning orbital slot
PARIS — EchoStar’s experience in Brazil mirrors its broader financial results in the past couple of years: Good news in broadband for the Hughes Network Systems division, and disappointment at...
Smallsat builder AAC meets EBITDA, revenue targets, but needs cash and is replacing its CEO
PARIS — Small satellite manufacturer AAC reached its goal of becoming EBITDA positive in the last three months of 2018 but said it will need to raise fresh funding soon and has decided to replace...
Intelsat’s capex-saving measures to increase opex and cut EBITDA starting this year
PARIS — The flip side of Intelsat’s lower spending on new satellites will show up in 2019 as higher operating expenses to meet the cost of new capacity that it did not finance up front, and the...
Satellite ground terminal builder Ovzon reports flat revenue, higher losses as it finances its own satellite
PARIS — Swedish mobile satellite ground terminal provider Ovzon AB, which plans to launch its own satellite in 2021, reported a 3.4% increase in revenue in 2018 on stronger terminal sales and a...
Spaceflight/Thales Alenia Space-backed LeoStella starts BlackSky satellite production
TUKWILA, Washington — Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky constellation of 1-meter-resolution Earth observation satellites expects to generate revenue this spring from its first two satellites, with...
EU space program proposal and ESA’s response to it show continued battle of ambitions
PARIS — The underlying tensions between the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been laid bare in a commission document preparing its space strategy and ESA Director-General...
UK triggers ESA support for 2nd-generation OneWeb satellite technology; Canada also in
PARIS — The British government has agreed to invest $23.2 million over about three years into a European Space Agency (ESA) program to prepare technologies for a second-generation OneWeb satellite...
Arianespace sees a shadow of a hope for ESA procurement reform, questions rocket-reuse value in Europe
SEATTLE, Washington — Arianespace’s chief executive said the European Space Agency (ESA) would re-examine its geographic-return policy as it applies to development of new-generation rockets when ESA...
Eutelsat says video revenue will be stable this year; ramp of broadband in Africa slow but promising
SEATTLE, Washington — Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat told investors to look past a 2.5% decline in the company’s all-important video revenue for the six months ending Dec. 31 to focus on a...
OneWeb’s losing its believer-in-chief at Airbus; successor’s view TBD; Viasat says GEO looks ever better
PARIS — Outgoing Airbus CEO Tom Enders defended his decision to make a major commitment to the New Space business by investing in the OneWeb broadband satellite constellation, and sought to persuade...
