This month, Satellite Executive Briefing invited the Chairperson of the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) Stuart Daughtridge to share his views on trends in the industry.  Daughtridge is also the Vice President of Advanced Technology for Kratos.

Pay TV revenues in Canada and the US peaked in 2015 at US $112 billion. Digital TV Research forecasts that revenues will fall by US$ 50 billion to US$ 62 billion in 2025. 

Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA) today announces its 2020 Board of Directors, Board Leadership, and welcomes three new association members. MSUA is a nonprofit association dedicated to promoting satellite mobility innovation and the development of satellite mobility markets worldwide.

Telesat today announced its financial results for the three-month and one-year periods ended December 31, 2019. All amounts are in Canadian dollars and reported under International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) unless otherwise noted. For the year ended December 31, 2019, Telesat reported consolidated revenue of $911 million, an increase of 1% ($8 million) compared to the same period in 2018.

SpaceBridge Inc.(www.spacebridge.com), a global leading designer and manufacturer of Satellite Broadband Platforms and terminals, today announced that it has delivered to principal South American defense entity geographically redundant Military Satellite Communication Network Systems for the p

Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM)  today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019 and issued its full-year 2020 guidance. Net loss was $107.9 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2019, as compared to net loss of $7.6 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2018.

HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite telecommunications operator, has sealed new agreements and contract renewals to provide dedicated satellite capacity to extend mobile networks in Latin America. In particular, the operator is consolidating its important role as a provider of these services in the Americas, where it offers connectivity to more than 2,400 base stations, distributed across the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador along with providing service for the first time to Chile and Colombia over the last few months.

RF-Design, a leading manufacturer of RF distribution and RF-over-Fiber solutions for the global satellite communications industry, together with their local partner Wahsh Engineering and the German system integrator HILTRON has supplied their FiberLinkplus RF-over-Fiber system for a new TVRO downlink operation at the satellite ground station facilities of Nilesat in Giza/EGYPT.

Spacecom (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: SCC), operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and Get SAT, an innovator in small, lightweight satellite communication terminals for airborne, ground, and maritime applications, today revealed that using AMOS-17’s steerable KA-band HTS beams and Get SAT’s miniaturized Micro-SAT satcom terminals, they have successfully tested and demonstrated full mobile broadband satcom capabilities for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) applications.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced that it will present the 2020 Teleport Executive of the Year Award to Mauricio Segovia, CEO of AXESS Networks at the 25th annual Teleport Awards for Excellence Ceremony and Luncheon on March 10 during the SATELLITE conference in Washington, DC.