News Analysis

 Seattle, Wash., June 12, 2020 – Satellite rideshare launch provider Spaceflight Inc. announced its acquisition by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in partnership with Yamasa Co., Ltd. is now complete with the final review of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Palo Alto, Calif., June 5, 2020--Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) has successfully completed the purchase of SATCOM Technologies, the antenna systems business of General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc., a business unit of General Dynamics. The transaction was funded using a new committed debt financing.

McLean,Va, June 4, 2020--Intelsat S.A. (OTC: INTEQ), today announced financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020. Intelsat reported total revenue of US$ 458.8 million and net loss attributable to Intelsat S.A. of US$ 218.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020. Intelsat reported EBITDA, or earnings before net interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization, of US$ 263.3 million and Adjusted EBITDA1 of US$ 294.0 million, or 64 percent of revenue, for the three months ended March 31, 2020.

 Montreal, Canada, June 3, 2020--UHP Networks, the Canadian manufacturer of advanced VSAT networking equipment and systems posted record results at the end of its fiscal year ending April 30, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a major economic downturn unfolding in the last quarter, the company recorded highest revenue and profitability in its history.

Melville, NY, June 3, 2020-- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) today reported its operating results for its third fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2020 and provided an update on business developments and the UHP and Gilat acquistions.

The June 2020 issue of  the Satellite Executive Briefing magazine focusing on the Asia-Pacific Satelltie Market sponsored by Comtech EF Data is now available.  Featuring:

China's Space Industry in the Time of COVID-19 by Blaine Curcio

Update on the Japanese Satellite Market by Naoakira Kamiya

Executive Spotlight: Semir Hassanaly, Head of Cellular Backhaul and Trunking, ST Engineering iDirect

Will Satellite-Delivered TV Go the Way of the Dinosaurs? by Robert Bell

Capacity Building with Satellite for Disaster Response by Martin Jarrold

Better Satellite World Series: Keeping the Lights On

PLUS Product and Services Spotlight, Mergers and Acquisitions, Executive Moves, Market Briefs, Vital Statistics, Satellite Markets 20 Stock Index and many more. Click here to read or download the file

Arlington, Va., June 2020--Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) today announced the sale of its Cobham RAD radiation testing business in Colorado Springs, CO to Radiation Test Solutions (RTS), a specialist in the design, analysis, and testing of semiconductor devices and materials for satellite, aircraft, and ground applications.

by Blaine Curcio

Hong Kong, June 1, 2020--What a strange 2020 it’s been so far. For the satellite industry. For the broader space industry. For the entirety of humanity. When we rang in the new decade just a few months ago, no one could have foreseen the enormous changes that were coming to the way we live, work, and geek out about space. 

by Naoakira Kamiya

Tokyo, Japan, June 1,2020--The flame for 2020 Tokyo Olympics arrived from Greece to Japan on March 20th and Japanese leg of the torch relay with the concept of “Hope Lights Our Way” was scheduled to begin on March 26 from J Village in Fukushima prefecture. However, on March 24 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the Tokyo Games due to the spreading of the novel coronavirus. Consequently IOC made a decision to accept it. 

by Martin Jarrold

London, UK, June 1, 2020--I opened my previous column for this publication one month ago with the following statement: “In starting to draft this column it was impossible not to be affected by the news that the official global figure for Covid-19 fatalities was approaching 200,000. The zoonotic – interspecies – jump to humans and subsequent pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has badly impacted many of the world’s most advanced and richest countries, but the epidemiology tells us that the worst of the impact, on the less-developed world, is still to come.”