by Matt Wilson | Oct 25, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Finance, Seradata News, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
In a vote on 23 October, shareholders of SCH (Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp.) approved its merger with upcoming space tourism firm Virgin Galactic. Following the completion of the transaction, Virgin Galactic became a Delaware-based publicly traded company...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 19, 2019 | Finance, Satellites, Seradata News
On 18 September 2019, following on from their US$70m Series B round of funding raised in August, new-space company HawkEye 360 have ordered 12 small-satellites from Canadian, small-satellite manufacturer SFL UTIAS. This order for 12 units follows-on from initial...
by Matt Wilson | Aug 12, 2019 | Finance, Seradata News
Start-up space launch company Vector has run into financial trouble. Vector Launch Inc, announced, on 9 August, that it was “undertaking a pause in operations” following a “significant change in financing”. This coincides with the departure of...
by Matt Wilson | Jul 9, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, Finance, Seradata News, Space tourism
Space tourism operator Virgin Galactic (VG) and the investment partnership, Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH) announced on 8 July that they had agreed a deal that will see SCH shareholders own approximately 49 per cent of the new combined Virgin Galactic. The merger is...
by Matt Wilson | May 14, 2019 | Finance, Seradata News
On 10 May 2019, a 77 per cent majority of Inmarsat plc shareholders agreed to the purchase of the company by a private consortium, Connect Bidco Limited (Bidco), formed for this purpose. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. The purchasing...
by Matt Wilson | May 9, 2019 | commercial launch services, Finance, Seradata News
Having finally received the fixed number of “institutional launches” that the company needed, Arianespace have officially placed an order for the first 14 series-production units of their next-generation launcher, Ariane 6, on 6 May. This follows an ESA...
