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AsiaSat has appointed Victor Au as its new general counsel, the company announced April 22. Au has more than two decades of experience working across international and local law firms...

Former Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce is joining energy service company Highview Power as CEO, the company announced Monday.  Pearce led Inmarsat for nearly a decade before his departure in early...

Satellite industry veteran Yoel Gat died on April 8, SatixFy Communications announced Sunday. Gat was a 40-year veteran of the satellite industry and co-founded Gilat Satellite Networks, RaySat, and SatixFy....

Two dozen executives from the space industry’s largest companies signed an Aerospace Corp.-drafted industry pledge Tuesday morning to increase workforce diversity, report annual data on diversity in senior leadership roles,...

Boeing on Monday said that Leanne Caret, president and CEO of the company’s $26 billion Defense, Space and Security business, will retire later this year and be succeed by Ted...

In the run-up to SATELLITE 2022, we talk to Jim Rosenberg, CTO and co-founder of Wavestream, about the drive to better standards in the satellite industry. Jim has some particularly...

Former astronaut Tim Kopra has joined OneWeb Technologies as president to lead the company’s growth strategy. OneWeb Technologies, formerly TrustComm, is OneWeb’s U.S. proxy focused on serving Five Eyes governments. ...

Today’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us all the way to Canada to talk to a veteran of the industry, David Gelerman, CEO of SpaceBridge. We talk about everything from his...

Globalstar has appointed former AT&T Exec Dave Haight to be its new vice president of IoT, the company announced March. 8. Haight joins Globalstar after working on developing the IoT...

Intelsat has named former Raytheon executive David Wajsgras as its next CEO, effective April 4. Wajsgras succeeds CEO Stephen Spengler, who was with the company for 18 years, and previously...