Satellite operator Thaicom Plc has ordered a fully reconfigurable high throughput communications satellite – as yet unnamed – from Airbus Defence and Space. It will use the software-defined OneSat platform/bus design from Airbus. The communications...
British defence company BAE Systems plans to acquire Ball Corporation’s aerospace subsidiary for US$5.6 billion in cash. The deal, pegged as one of the biggest acquisitions by a UK company this year, is also BAE’s biggest, making public the extent of its ambition to...
Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation is fully financed after the Canadian company awarded MDA with a contract to build 198 satellites; in the process eschewing Thales Alenia Space and saving the satellite operator a cool US$2 billion. The new contract with MDA, a...
While there the space sector has seen some major advancements over August, from Virgin Galactic’s first tourist flight and India’s first lunar landing, there were also some casualties with a human cost. Three US space companies were forced to make layoffs...
US satellite TV provider DISH Network plans to merge with its sister company and satellite operator, EchoStar, the companies have announced. The deal will see the creation of a significant space connectivity player with a market value of around US$6 billion at the...
The Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) – the first crewed mission of CST-100 Starliner, Boeing’s partially reusable spacecraft – was supposed to fly two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore (spacecraft commander) and Sunita Williams (pilot) on a week long test...