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 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...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 9, 2018
AMSTERDAM — JSC Gazprom Space Systems’s much-delayed C- and Ka-band Yamal-601 satellite now expected for launch in March and will bring Russia’s second satellite fleet operator into the Ka-band broadband world. Gazprom already provides broadband in-flight connectivity...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 8, 2018
PARIS — Satellite fleet operator SES has selected Airbus, Boeing and Thales Alenia Space as finalists for a multi-satellite order envisioned as a step-change in the way satellites are contracted, built and launched, industry officials said. SES declined to name the...
by Peter B. de Selding | Oct 4, 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Patent-mining investment company Allied Minds said two of its space-technology startups — radio signals-intelligence satellite operator Hawkeye 360 and optical satellite ground station network operator BridgeSat — have secured major support from...
