by Matt Wilson | Mar 22, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Lifting-off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 0151 GMT, an Arianespace Vega, light-lift vehicle has carried the Italian-made PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) hyper-spectral, Earth-Imaging, satellite to a sun-synchronous orbit. The Italian-led...
by Matt Wilson | Mar 20, 2019 | Finance, Seradata News
UK-based Inmarsat plc, a global provider of MSS (Mobile Satellite Service) products, announced on 19 March 2019, that they had received an non-binding cash offer for their company on 31 January, from a consortium of private investors. Their takeover bid is valued at...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 13, 2019 | Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
Red Eléctrica Corporación SA (REC) announced on 12 February that it had reached a deal with Hispasat’s majority shareholder, Abertis Infraestructuras SA (Abertis), to purchase its 89.68 per cent stake for EUR€949m (US$1.07bn). REC is a public limited company with...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 25, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
It has been reported by Reuters that Arianespace has lowered the launch price of its mainstay Ariane 5 launch vehicle, in response to fierce competition in the Asia-Pacific region from industry disruptor SpaceX. The two companies are competing for two satellite launch...
by Matt Wilson | Jan 15, 2019 | Iran, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 0030 GMT on 15 January 2019, the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) attempted to launch the AMIR KABIR-1 (PAYAM) satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), utilising its three-stage Simorgh-Basir light launch vehicle. This launch is reported to have ended in failure due to an...
