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Oct 2, 2023
Viasat Debt Slips to High Yield Status
Viasat refinanced its Inmarsat bridge facility on Sept. 21, issuing $733M of Senior Notes to retire the unsecured bridge loan facility that

Sep 27, 2023
Blue Origin’s leadership shakeup: the change the company needs?
Bob Smith, Blue Origin’s CEO of six years, is departing the company in a move widely perceived as the end of a lackluster era.


Sep 22, 2023
Maxar splits back into two business units, but stops short of calling them "SSL" and "DigitalGlobe"
Our 2020 Maxar initiation report bluntly concluded that the combination of an EO company and a GEO satellite manufacturer was “not a combina


Sep 14, 2023
A Billion Reasons Left to Root for this NASA Initiative
As threats of FY 2024 budget cuts lurk in the shadows of haunting GAO reports, recent awards may hint at which NASA programs and players


Sep 8, 2023
The Last Mile for Momentus
A 1-for-50 reverse stock split on Aug. 23 was hardly the "last mile" space tug startup Momentus (NASDAQ: MNTS) envisioned


Sep 8, 2023
Starship Gets Ready to Rumble
We are slightly concerned he wasn’t spiking the ball on Twitter (ugh, X) seconds after the FAA announced Friday that the Starship mishap


Aug 25, 2023
Viasat goes 0 for 2 on successful satellites. Here are the impacts
To state it bluntly, 2023 has not been a good year for Viasat. One satellite malfunction is bad enough; two have us wondering where

Aug 21, 2023
Is that an Alarm or Just the Sound of a Familiar Tune? A closer look at SDA’s latest $1.5B Tranche 2 awards
Even more confusing than why the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 72 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) “Beta” satellites precede the 100 T2TL


Aug 10, 2023
A hypersonics deal with small launch on the side?
U.S. defense company Kratos Defense and Security Solutions announced Aug. 9 plans to buy up to 20 Dart AE hypersonic vehicles


Aug 1, 2023
Planet’s somewhat-predictable headcount reduction
Planet’s decision to lay off 10% of its workforce did not come as a complete surprise following Q1 results that saw the company lower


Jul 26, 2023
Is the ORCHESTRA NGSO Effort Ready to Call?
Earlier this week, Viasat nixed Inmarsat’s “ORCHESTRA” V-band filing with the FCC, presumably ending the company’s lukewarm attempt to

Jul 19, 2023
Kuiper spending $10B on launch alone
Amazon’s launch costs for Project Kuiper, its constellation of ~3,200 broadband satellites, are much higher than initially estimated, accord

Jul 5, 2023
How China’s new rare element export rules may hurt the global space industry
The chip war has finally caught up with the space industry. Two days ago, Beijing declared that gallium, a unique material used in several s


Jul 3, 2023
Low GEO Orders are Here to Stay. Here’s What that Means.
Commercial geostationary communications satellites, long the lifeblood of the industry, remain chronically below historic order levels


Jun 28, 2023
What does Anduril’s solid motor gambit mean for space?
Heavily capitalized defense startup Anduril Industries has made a mission out of disrupting various defense industry subsectors, namely AI

Jun 19, 2023
The end of Eutelsat’s consumer internet business
Eutelsat’s June 15 move to sell off its retail broadband business draws to a close a 16-year effort to create a growth engine that

Jun 16, 2023
Palantir’s win: a boon for EO?
Fresh off its $463M USSOCOM contract last week, Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) just landed another $110M in three, one-year, firm-fixed

Jun 12, 2023
SES CEO Steve Collar announces sudden resignation
The unexpected end of Steve Collar’s 20-year run with SES on June 12 shook up the satcom industry, triggering a wave of speculation and send

Jun 9, 2023
Rivada CEO drops some financing crumbs ahead of RRB decision
As Rivada Space Networks readies for word from the ITU’s RRB on whether its milestone waiver request will be granted


Jun 8, 2023
LeoStella’s plight shows how the U.S. is a hard market for European satellite manufacturers
When announced in 2019, LeoStella looked poised for success. The 50/50 joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight had built a fact
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