by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 15, 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — OneWeb’s difficulty in closing its debt financing is indicative of the problems that other multibillion-dollar mega-constellations of satellites will have unless they can show solid customer commitments, financial analysts said. While not...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 11, 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Startup corporate and government satellite broadband provider LeoSat expects its two strategic partners — GEO fleet operators Sky Perfect JSat and Hispasat — to invest some $300 million each into the project over time, LeoSat Chief...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 11, 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Telesat expects to finance a large piece of its multibillion-dollar Telesat LEO constellation from its own operating cash flows supplemented by export-credit-agency-backed loans and government investment, a company official said. Telesat’s...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 10, 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — One of the biggest builder/operators of cubesats on Oct. 9 told launch-launch-service providers that customers don’t care about their cool engineering, and that even low prices are not as crucial as they might seem. Jenny Barna, launch...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 9, 2018
UPDATE Oct 10: Firefly and York Space Systems said York announce MoU on future launch systems. Firefly’s Alpha rocket could accommodate up to four of York’s S-Class platform, 3-axis-stabiliized, up to 85 kg of payload, 100W average power. PARIS — The next...
