Market braces for heavily insured satellite launch period
An incoming period of heavily insured satellite launches has critical implications for the insurance market, which is grappling with COVID-19 ...
Tag: B-Sat
Satellite launch sites opening back up for business to clear packed backlogs
As many parts of the world begin to relax COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, satellite launch sites are ramping up operations to ...
LEO design milestone for Telesat brightens SSL as lawsuit and other challenges weigh on parent Maxar Technologies
Completion of a key design milestone for Canadian satellite operator Telesat has lifted US-based manufacturer SSL, whose parent Maxar Technologies faces legal action alongside a general ...
Maxar could be doubling down on smallsat and satellite-servicing with possible GEO exit
Maxar Technologies‘ increasing focus on smallsats and satellite-servicing could go into overdrive as it mulls abandoning the GEO satellite-manufacturing market. Investors ...
Spacecom and B-SAT order satellites without export credit agency support
Israel-based Spacecom and Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. each ordered satellites with a well-placed source suggesting that neither operator used export credit ...
Telkom-1 joins growing list of in-orbit anomalies | Insurance round-up
Indonesia’s Telkom-1 joined a host of aging satellites to suffer in-orbit failures recently. Meanwhile, a rare PSLV launch failure could impact the ...
Arianespace wins Horizons 3e launch as civil unrest continues in French Guiana
Arianespace has won a contract to launch Horizons 3e to confirm its leadership position in Japan as political unrest in French ...
Insurance Round-up: Ariane 5 aids ViaSat-2 placement
ViaSat’s decision to launch ViaSat-2 on an Ariane 5 instead of the new Falcon Heavy will be a relief for ...
B-Sat selects SSL for latest DTH bird
Japanese operator B-Sat has picked Space Systems Loral to build its next broadcast satellite in a move away from its ...
