Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) has acquired Pioneer Astronautics in a cash and stock transaction. Pioneer Astronautics is a hands-on research and development company dedicated to inventing and proving new technologies to advance humanity’s reach into space and improve life on Earth. This news marks the second acquisition for Voyager since the company’s inception. Headquartered […]
Business Moves
CORRECTION: OneWeb Sale Approved by US Bankruptcy Court + Arqiva Layoffs
OneWeb is now well on its way to being purchased by a joint-venture between the UK government and India telco Bharti Global. A US bankruptcy court approved the sale of OneWeb to the consortium on July 10th in return for a guaranteed $1 billion sum, which will be paid 50/50 by the UK and Bharti. […]
Virgin Galactic Signs Space Act Agreement with NASA
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”) has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development of a robust economy in LEO. Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop a new […]
UPDATE: iRocket’s USAF is for Fully Reusable, Autonomous, Small Rockets — Flight-Ready in Less Than 24 Hours
iRocket signed a Phase II RAPID Other Transaction Agreement contract with the U.S. Air Force. The award was created just three months after the phase I contract when iRocket partnered with Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. iRocket is a […]
NovelSat + Envistacom Partner for Incorporation of Satellite Access Waveforms
Envistacom, LLC, has announced that NovelSat will incorporate the company’s high-performance satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem that will enable virtualized applications, such as advanced communications waveforms, encryption, data analytics, and other real-time continuous processing applications, to reside in Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware. The Envistacom/NovelSat partnership allows […]
Astroscale Adds to their U.S. Management Team
Astroscale U.S. Inc., (“Astroscale U.S.”) has named Becky Yoder has joined the Astroscale U.S. management team — she is serving as the SVP for Finance and Business Operations as of June 2020. Yoder joins Astroscale with more than 25 years of experience in business, finance and operational management. Most recently, she was Director of Operations […]
Comtech EF Data Has an South East Asian MoD Selecting Their SCPC Modems and Switches
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has revealed that, during the company’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial Solutions segment, received a $1.1 million order for satellite ground station equipment from a South East Asia Ministry of Defense. This initial order of SCPC […]
Senior Industry Executives Join Space & Satellite Professionals International Board of Directors
The ballots have been counted and the results of the 2020 elections Board of Directors were made known by Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI). The SSPI membership has elected four new Directors and re-elected three Directors to serve three-year terms beginning July 1. Newly elected and re-elected Directors include: Mike Antonovich, CEO, Eutelsat Americas […]
Gilat’s CEO, Yona Ovadia, Steps Down, Adi Sfadia Interim CEO
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) announces a change in their CEO. Effective immediately Yona Ovadia steps down as Gilat’s CEO. Adi Sfadia, Gilat’s CFO and Chief Integration Officer will assume the position of interim CEO. Mr. Ovadia will remain as a consultant of the Company and continue assisting in the integration with Comtech. […]
EUMETSAT Transitions to Meteosat’s Third Generation and Ariane-6 to Launch Two of the Satellites
Decisions were made at a virtual meeting of the Council of Europe’s operational satellite agency for weather and climate, EUMETSAT, regarding the transition plan from the second to the third generation of Meteosat geostationary satellites for 2022-2026. It was determined that EUMETSAT will move Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) spacecraft Meteosat-9 over the Indian Ocean in […]