Inmarsat announced the appointments of Barry French as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer (CMCO) and Jat Brainch as Chief Commercial and Product Officer (CCPO).

Redwire, a provider of mission-critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, and Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GNPK), a publicly traded Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will result in Redwire becoming a publicly traded company.

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) will be kicking off its conference calendar for the year with the OTT  Summit – The Future of Video Streaming. Alongside the OTT Summit, AVIA will also be hosting Piracy Over the Top, the companion event focused on streaming pirated services, as streaming piracy becomes the biggest competitive threat to the video industry.

To explain the features and benefits of ST Engineering iDirect's newly-launched Mx-DMA Multi-Resolution Coding (MRC technology, Satellite Executive Briefing spoke with Bart Van Poucke, Vice-President of Product Management, ST Engineering iDirect.  Excerpts of the interview follows:

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today, that during its third quarter of fiscal 2021, its subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. , a leader in high-power amplifiers, received a contract valued at more than  US$ 1.0 million for X-band SSPA/BUCs for transportable military satellite communications  ground systems.

Scalability: a few terminals to many thousands of terminals; flexibility: a few bits per second (bps) to hundreds of megabits (Mbps) AND dynamic, rapid response times.  This is what to expect from recent innovations in Mx-DMA return technology from ST Engineering iDirect. No more trade-offs, you can have efficiency and scalability.  Introducing Mx-DMA Multi- Resolution Coding (MRC)--simply the most powerful, efficient, dynamic, flexible and cost-effective return technology available today.

No More Trade-offs

Global Eagle Entertainment today announced that it has successfully completed the sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets to a group comprising the Company’s first-lien investors and its operations have emerged from the Chapter 11 restructuring process.

Consistent with the company’s post-restructuring focus on mobility, the Company also announced it has completed the sale of its legacy non-governmental organization (NGO) and African fixed-site land business to Marlink AS.

NSR’s Emerging Space Investment Analysis, 3^rd Edition report (ESIA3) released today, shows US$ 7.7 Billion in funding was raised in 2020 alone, bringing the total since 2000 to nearly US$ 36 Billion.

Avanti Communications Group  announced the appointment of Vikas Grover  as its new Chief Technology Officer.Grover was recently the founding Chief Information Officer at OneWeb, where he led Global Networks, IT Platforms and Security.  Grover will succeed Scott Richardson in the role, who will be leaving the company.

According to a new report published by Trends Market Research entitled, "Commercial Satellite Imaging Market by Application, End User, and Region: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019-2026," The global commercial satellite imaging market was valued at US$ 2.24 Billion in 2018, and is expected to reach US$ 5,25 Billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of 11.2% from 2019 to 2026.