The industry's premier show, Satellite 2020 held from March 9-11 in Washington D.C., was almost a surreal experience.  I don’t know the precise numbers, but from walking around the show floor, I would guess that attendance was down by 30-50%.  There were large gaps where booths should have been.

Latin America will have 81 million SVOD subscriptions by 2025; almost double the 42 million recorded at end-2019 according to Digital TV Research. This growth comes despite the recession affecting most countries in the region. 

Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a leading provider of high-quality, flight-proven satellite hardware. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.

The acquisition strengthens the satellite division of Rocket Lab, which produces the Photon spacecraft line, and will enable Sinclair to tap into Rocket Lab’s resources, scale, manufacturing capability and innovative technology.

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI, OTC: CYSNF), a l provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced today financial results for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2019. The company has generated revenues of CDN $13,977,909 and a net after tax profit of CDN $2,843,092 or 8 cents per share. This compared with 2018 total revenues of CDN $13,527,368 and a net after tax profit of  CDN $2,299,501 or 6 cents per share, representing an increase of 3.3% and 23.6% respectively.

International Launch Services (ILS) has hired a longtime United Launch Alliance executive as its new president as the company expands to offer Soyuz launch services and potentially human spaceflight missions. ILS announced March 11 that Tiphaine Louradour is the company’s new president, effective immediately.

Informa i announced the co-location of their series of leading tech events in Singapore to form a groundbreaking proposition across one week and two locations. Held during 29 September – 2 October 2020 at the Singapore EXPO & MAX Atria and Marina Bay Sands, unparalleled synergies will unlock deep industry networking, collaboration and development.  

ST Engineering iDirect, a company of ST Engineering North America, has been presented with the World Teleport Association’s (WTA) 2020 Teleport Technology of the Year for its Newtec Dialog^® platform at SATELLITE 2020.

HawkEye 360 today announced that Dennis Burnett has joined the company as Executive Vice President (EVP) and General Counsel. Burnett joins HawkEye 360 with several decades of experience advising high growth domestic and international space and technology companies in transactional, regulatory and national security matters.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)  is contemplating several options after it announced that it is calling off the 2020 NAB Show amid concerns regarding the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The NAB is considering  moving their flgaship show to the summer or expanding autumn's NAB Show New York.

SpaceBridge (www.spacebridge.com) a global market leader and supplier of multiservice broadband satellite communications systems technology, advanced HTS VSAT platforms, Cloud based managed services, SCPC and broadcast modems, was selected and delivered its solution for 2G/4G mobile cellular backhaul over satellite network to the African largest mobile network operator (MNO) for servicing the unserved remote areas and replace currently installed technology.