Mark Dankberg, Viasat’s chairman and CEO, addressed Equatys – the company’s proposed joint-venture with Abu Dhabi-based Space42 – during the company’s results presentation, saying that the project was moving ahead. The project calls for 2,800 satellites to be orbited. First announced in September 2025, the initiative aims to build a shared, neutral wholesale network that […]

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California-based Viasat has obligations to pay out $291 million (€253.8m) in satellite manufacturing payments over the next five years. It also has obligations costing $509.8 million in other – non-owned – satellites. However, the main news from Viasat is that its proposed joint-venture with Space42 of the UAE to build a constellation of 2800 low […]

Karim Sabbagh, MD at Abu Dhabi-based Space42, says that the satellite industry is operating on a different clock than the one it was built on. “A decade ago, missions were launched with the conviction that the decisions behind them would hold for the next twenty years. That assumption is no longer valid.” Sabbagh, who a […]

Two satellite operators, Viasat of California and Space42 of Abu Dhabi, are involved in a joint-venture, Equatys. The pair want to build and launch up to a 2,800 satellite mega-constellation to connect “billions” of people. The Equatys joint venture was announced in September 2025, but details have emerged following the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. […]

In what the company describes as “a stabilising year”, Abu Dhabi-based satellite business Space42 has reported an 8 per cent fall in revenues for 2025. There was growth in its Space Services division but losses in its Smart Solutions segment. A report on its full year trading said that its Q4 numbers were an improvement […]

Abu Dhabi-based Space42, using its Mira Aerospace subsidiary, has flown a High Altitude Platform System (HAPS) aircraft over Spain during December 2025. The aircraft, a solar-powered version called ApusNeo18, flew from the Fuerteventura Technology Park in Spain and collected data focused on wildfire prevention and management as part of the ISSEC program, a joint venture […]

Space42, the Abu Dhabi-based satellite operator which also owns the fleet of Thuraya satellites, says its latest addition – Thuraya-4 – is now on station at 44.3 degrees East in its geostationary orbital slot following a period of testing following its launch in January 2025. Space42’s predecessor business was known as YahSat. “Launched in January […]

ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (VS-3 F2) – the second of three VS-3 Ultra-high capacity satellites – is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. It will lift off aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket provided by United Launch Alliance (ULA) in the second half of October. Once […]