Finance

OilComm has been serving as the energy industry’s leading forum for telecommunications and networking technology since the turn of the century. Now paired with its FleetComm counterpart for commercial transportation and shipping markets, OilComm and Fleetcomm will open its doors for the 18th time on Wednesday, Oct. 3 2018 to a much more diverse audience...

After eight days of being at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris and IBC Show in Amsterdam and having talked MEO, LEO, GEO, Ka-, Ku-, C-, V-, Q- and even E-band, I would like to share some random observations about key takeaways from these trade shows. 1.) I am Now a Payload I have...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, signed a multi-million dollar contract with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) for a one-year maritime surveillance program that includes the delivery of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data products from the Rardarsat-2 satellite, using MDA’s global network of ground receiving stations. The contract includes two additional option years. As...

Will telecom companies invest in satellite assets and players in the next few years? This was one of the burning questions on a major finance panel to kick off Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris this week. Bank of America Head of Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT) Randy Russell believes it is a distinct...

Boeing will invest in BridgeSat, an optical communications solutions company working to enable the future of connectivity in space through a network of ground stations and proprietary space terminals. BridgeSat is developing a global network of Optical Ground Stations (OGS) to transmit large amounts of data into space quickly and reliably. Its stations support Low...

Former Uphold Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Adrian Steckel will become then new CEO of OneWeb, one of the world’s largest, satellite-based broadband initiatives. Steckel remains chairman of Uphold. OneWeb aims to provide affordable internet access to people everywhere through a proprietary network of satellites and has secured $1.2 billion in funding led by Softbank. Other...

Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, and TellusLabs, a satellite imagery and machine learning company, are partnering to jointly offer agricultural intelligence products revealing insight on the world’s food supply, for the remainder of the Northern Hemisphere’s 2018 agricultural growing season and into the start of the Southern Hemisphere’s growing season. This alliance illustrates a...

The cyber threat to airlines is growing as hackers use more and more sophisticated techniques to gain access to valuable customer data. Devon Smibert, director of cybersecurity at Canadian airline WestJet spoke on Sept. 5 at the Aviation Festival in London about the cyber challenges facing an airline such as WestJet, as the challenges are...

Speedcast made news recently of its on-going acquisition of Globecomm, marking the latest buyout of Speedcast Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Pierre-Jean Beylier’s 16-company spree, starting in 2012. The $135 million purchase of the U.S.-based remote communications and infrastructure provider is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. When complete, this latest transaction...

When the going gets tough, the tough gets smallsats. This seems to be the case if the tough is big aerospace, and if this refers to the likes of industry giants SSL and Boeing. Both of these large satellite manufacturing heavy weights have proven to be big on smallsats, as of recent. SSL, owned by...