by Peter B. de Selding | Sep 17, 2018
PARIS – The Luxembourg government, which has facilitated and financed more startup space projects –both near-term commercial and Hail Mary-type call-me-in-a-decade-type ventures — than governments 10 times its size, on Sept. 17 announced it had found another:...
by Peter B. de Selding | Sep 17, 2018
PARIS — Capella Space of the United States and Iceye of Finland are venture-capital-funded startups building constellations of radar satellites for government and commercial customers worldwide — assuming there are enough of them to close a business plan. It’s risky,...
by Peter B. de Selding | Sep 14, 2018
PARIS — The British government has asked the European Commission to clarify whether UK organizations with high-bandwidth access EU Copernicus Earth observation satellite data will be cut off from the service in the event of a “No Deal” Brexit. It was one of several...
by Peter B. de Selding | Sep 12, 2018
PARIS — When Dario Zamarian left private-equity investment company Blackstone Group to become president of satellite builder SSL in 2017 he thought he would be helping diversify a company away from large, commercial, geostationary-orbit telecommunications satellites....
by Amy Svitak | Sep 11, 2018
PARIS — Telesat expects to select a prime contractor for its multibillion-dollar LEO broadband constellation by mid-2019 from competing bids by Airbus Defense and Space on the one hand and a joint bid of Maxar Technologies’ SSL and MDA with Thales Alenia Space, said...
by Peter B. de Selding | Sep 11, 2018
PARIS — Startup broadband mega-constellation operator OneWeb’s recent change of CEO and its continued lack of debt financing is feeding concerns among industry officials of the consequences for the commercial space sector if the multibillion-dollar constellation is...
