European CubeSat and satellite component manufacturer GomSpace, has shut-down its fledgling Aerial & Maritime business. This news came from an announcement by the company on 16 June 2020. Aerial & Maritime Ltd. was formed in 2016 by an agreement between...
The previously announced sale of Spaceflight Inc – the rideshare organising part of Spaceflight Industries – to a partnership of two Japanese companies has been completed. The buyers are Mitsui & Co and Yamasa Co. Both companies will hold 50 per cent of...
Intelsat, the global satellite operator undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings in the USA, confirmed on 15 June that it had ordered six new GEO satellites from American manufacturers. These are broken down into four satellites ordered from Maxar and two from Northrop...
Astroscale Holdings, Japan, announced on 3 June 2020, that their American subsidiary, Astroscale US Inc., had entered into an agreement to purchase Israeli company Effective Space. Astroscale is a newspace company formed in 2013, to develop orbital debris mitigation...
Not to be out-done by fellow satellite operator SES, Intelsat also submitted their commitment to the accelerated C-band clearing process to the FCC on 26 May 2020, (before the 29 May deadline). With the confirmation that both SES and Intelsat (accounting for 91 per...
Intelsat, one of the primary FSS operators globally, announced on 13 May that it had entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection via a Court in the USA. The company described the move as a “financial restructuring” process. This new status, which protects the...
