Chris Forrester is one of the most experienced and highly regarded journalists in the field. His insight and analysis, particularly in the satellite and pay-TV arena, is highly prized. He has written for all the major business journals in the sector as well as several national newspapers.
The telecom team of equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies wrote their latest satellite overview before the news broke that Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen is retiring next March. There was good news in that the return to flight of the International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket launcher should mean that Eutelsat’s 36C satellite should […]
The past week has not been helpful for satellite operator Intelsat. During the week ending October 16th Intelsat’s share price tumbled 14.82 percent (and 30.12 per cent over the past 4 weeks). Not helping matters is that Monday saw its CFO depart unexpectedly, and without a replacement named. Just over a week from now (on […]
According to a statement from LEO satellite operator Orbcomm, it has managed to secure the first flight on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX had widely been expected to launch a SES satellite, following on from the June 28th catastrophic explosion of a Falcon-9 and which has put the complete SpaceX launch programme […]
Sky delivers its Q1 results for its 2015-2016 financial year on October 21st, and there are anxieties that Sky’s UK DTH base might be in decline. The concerns were highlighted by equity analysts at Jefferies in a report to investors on October 15th. Despite these concerns the overall news is positive. The report expects Sky […]
Back on June 28th a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket exploded shortly after take-off. Within a month SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk had spoken publicly about the cause “probably” being a failed support strut which held a canister of helium in place. The failed rocket was carrying a cargo of supplies for the International Space Station. The failure […]
A report by a well-regarded Wall Street analyst, Armand Musey, is not favourable towards global satellite operator Intelsat. Intelsat has suffered dramatically in terms of stock market confidence, and has seen its share price come under severe pressure these past few weeks. At the end of last week its price hit a historical ‘low’ of […]
Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network won a large slice of new bandwidth in the FCC’s AWS-3 spectrum auction earlier this year. Dish paid a total of $13.3 billion for the rights. Now he is handing some of it back. Some of the allocated bandwidth was paid for through two Dish subsidiaries, Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless […]
Aerospace giant Boeing has won a US District court case against its Russian and Ukrainian partners involved in the Sea Launch floating rocket launch operation. The court ruled on September 28th that Russia’s RSC Energia and Yuzhnoye of the Ukraine had breached their contracts with Boeing by not reimbursing Boeing their share of Sea Launch […]
The crisis facing America’s satellite construction industry seems to be growing ever-more serious. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin claim to have lost direct orders for new satellites because of their inability to obtain supporting finance from the US Export-Import Bank. The bank has had its operations curtailed by the US government. Now Washington-based Orbital ATK […]
OneWeb is a $3 billion project to circle the Earth with about 700 small satellites and beaming broadband connectivity to underserved communities. It is backed, in part, by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and telco giant Qualcomm. The problem is that the satellites operate at just 1200 kms in space, and well below their bigger […]
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