Finance

Boeing is relocating the headquarters of its Space and Launch division to Titusville, in order to strengthen collaboration and integration across its portfolio. Space and Launch, a division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, currently has its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. In announcing the relocation of the headquarters to a region that includes Kennedy Space Center,...

Peraton entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Solers, a provider of software development and systems integration for Space Situational Awareness (SSA), satellite ground systems and operations, cybersecurity engineering, and enterprise cloud-based solutions. The Solers acquisition aims to accelerate both near- and long-range growth opportunities and enhance Peraton’s ability to deliver space protection and resiliency solutions...

Airspace Internet Exchange (AirspaceIX) wireless technology company, founded by Thomas Choi, launched Saturn Satellite Networks (Saturn). Based in Delaware, the company is building the world’s first space qualified small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite platform named Nationsat. Built entirely in the U.S.A. with heritage-based payload and bus components, Nationsat features a full-digital payload and 2.5 kW BUS design...

OneWeb created of more than 150 new jobs through the expansion of its Global Operations Center in White City, London. These new critical will add additional support for OneWeb to manage, monitor, and control its satellite network from a single location. The new roles will help power OneWeb’s ongoing launch program, which commenced in February...

Stephanie Koster will join the Vector team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Koster brings more than 20 years of experience in domestic and international strategy, finance, and operations across several Fortune 50 and high growth aerospace companies. As CFO, Koster will lead finance and business operations to enable growth. Koster joins Vector from Blue Origin...

Shareholders of London-based satellite operator Inmarsat decided in mid-May that the company will be sold to Triton Bidco, a newly formed private consortium. Satellite industry analysts believe going private could provide Inmarsat’s management with more flexibility to navigate an upcoming period of disruption and changing business models. “To be private in this period in time could...

AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with U.S. regulators, according to people familiar with their thinking. It’s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was...

Orbital Insight opened an office in Singapore. This is the company’s seventh office location, and the second dedicated sales office to open in Asia in the past 16 months. The company seeks to further its strategic expansion in the Asian markets following its Tokyo opening in February 2018 and to capitalize on the launch of...

As Chair of the SATELLITE conference, I am privileged to get an exciting behind-the-scenes view into the planning process that happens in the months leading to the event. The following is a list of takes that I felt stood out from a very busy week of conference sessions and keynote The satellite industry is a...

Under the terms of a new partnership agreement, Finnish satellite data services company ICEYE will provide Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to Ursa‘s energy customers in return for Ursa reselling ICEYE products, the two companies announced June 7. Ursa and ICEYE will also enter into a joint-development project to create new SAR-based analytic services. ICEYE is...