Thales Alenia Space and others spur LEO craze with new Space Rider vehicle
Responding to explosive commercial interest in LEO missions, France- and Italy-based Thales Alenia Space is leading multiple European organisations in the development ...
Tag: Iridium Communications
SpaceX hits bonanza again with US$100m follow-on financing
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has disclosed US$100m in financing as a follow-on to its series H round unveiled in July, valuing the company ...
Iridium exploring Magnitude Space partnership to diversify IoT portfolio
US MSS operator Iridium is exploring IoT partnership opportunities with Dutch startup Magnitude Space’s upcoming low-power M2M nanosat constellation. Iridium said their MoU underlines ...
Iridium CEO Matt Desch on why diversifying from commodity broadband is key to success | Q&A
As Iridium looks ahead to the completion of its NEXT constellation in 2018, the US MSS operator is ready to ...
Iridium’s newly amended credit facility stretches debt-payment runway, provides liquidity
US MSS operator Iridium Communications will get a longer timeline to pay its US$1.8bn export credit agency-backed debt and, in the ...
Aireon names Richard Nyren CFO | Executive Moves
Richard Nyren is moving to global-air-traffic surveillance company Aireon as CFO from parent company and MSS operator Iridium Communications, where he was chief ...
Magnitude Space seeks €5.5m in series A round for low-power M2M network
Amsterdam-based startup Magnitude Space is seeking €5.5m (US$5.9m) in a series A round as the low-power, low-data M2M company plans to launch nanosats ...
SpaceX makes history with launch of rocket featuring reused booster
SpaceX entered the history books today as the US launch provider successfully lofted a Falcon 9 rocket with a reused booster ...
Thales enters commercial maritime comms market | Brief
Thales will enter the commercial maritime communications market with VesseLINK, its satellite communications solution. Thales will enter the commercial maritime ...
Aireon takes control of first payload hosted on Iridium’s NEXT
Aireon, a global-air-traffic surveillance company, has taken control of its first payload hosted on Iridium Communications’ NEXT satellite. The Automatic Dependent ...
