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.
Senior officials at Russia’s new Vostochny space port have been charged with alleged fraud. Russia’s Politikar special police force are alleging that there has been an $84 million series of corrupt payments made during the construction of the cosmodrome. Russian news agency TASS says that the former CEO at the project, Yuri Khrizman, and the […]
Stephen Spengler, CEO at Intelsat, told analysts that the satellite industry in general is suffering an imbalance in supply over demand. “We have an imbalance of supply and demand globally in pretty much most regions that relates to traditional satellite capacity. It’s a tougher environment from a pricing standpoint as a result. What’s coming up […]
An international Arbitration Tribunal, which earlier in October ordered India Space Research Organisation’s commercial arm (ANTRIX) to pay out $672 million to Bangalore-based Devas Multimedia, has released its findings. They do not make pleasant reading for ISRO or ANTRIX, or the Indian government. It has also emerged that India’s police are investigating the overall deal, […]
October 30th will see Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES unveil its Q3 results, and the market is hoping that SES might use the event to dispel some of the gloom that surrounds the sector overall just at the moment. Share prices are down for each of the ‘Big Three’ operators (Intelsat, SES and Eutelsat) with confidence […]
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 […]
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