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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
UK-based Inmarsat plc, a global provider of MSS (Mobile Satellite Service) satellite communications, announced on 19 March, that it had received a non-binding cash offer from the Triton consortium of private investors. Triton’s takeover bid values Inmarsat at US$3.3...
