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, 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...
OneWeb LLC, a major player in the nascent LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite communications market, put itself into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a New York court on 27 March 2020. It follows failure to negotiate additional funding, which was partly blamed on the “market...
The first-of-its-kind docking of a service spacecraft with its client spacecraft, in this case of MEV-1 with Intelsat 901, occurred at 0715 GMT on 25 February 2020. This was the first time that two commercial satellites had docked together in-orbit. It was also...
The now fully “domesticated” American company Maxar Technologies inc. is to sell its legacy Canadian, business MDA (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd.). This is following an announcement made at the end of 2019. The intended recipients of the...
At 1357 GMT on 25 September, a Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from Launch Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Soyuz MS-15 crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This launch marked the end of some eras – and the beginning of...
