Focus: Mergers and Acquisitions

Private equity firm Trive Capital is acquiring Hypergiant Industries to advance its AI solutions for the defense sector. Trive Capital, based in Dallas, announced the acquisition on Tuesday. Terms of...

EchoStar Corporation and Dish Network are getting back together. The two Charlie Ergen-founded companies announced a deal to combine on Tuesday, with a plan to bring together satellite and terrestrial...

L3Harris closed on its acquisition of rocket propulsion supplier Aerojet Rocketdyne on Friday, after the Federal Trade Commission did not block the move.   More than 5,000 employees from Aerojet Rocketdyne...

Intelsat has ended talks of a potential merger with fellow satellite operator SES, a source close to the discussions told Via Satellite. SES confirmed in a press release Thursday morning...

Firefly Aerospace is acquiring smallsat rideshare company Spaceflight for an undisclosed amount, and will end Spaceflight’s rideshare business after its current contracts. The company announced the deal last week on...

York Space Systems has completed the acquisition of Emergent Space Technologies, a developer of mission software and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) solutions for multi-spacecraft missions headquartered in Maryland with...

Inmarsat CEO Rajeev Suri will step down from his role with the close of the Viasat acquisition, Inmarsat announced Friday. Suri has been nominated to serve on Viasat’s board of...

Private equity firm Advent International has closed its acquisition of Maxar, including a minority investment from British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Maxar will no longer be a publicly traded company...

Maxar’s shareholders approved the acquisition by Advent International, at a price of $53 in cash per share. Approximately 99.6% of the shares that voted in a special meeting voted in...

SES confirmed the operator is in talks for a potential combination with fellow operator Intelsat. SES issued a statement Wednesday morning after Bloomberg reported the satellite companies are nearing a...