Senior Space News writer, focusing on satellite telecom, finance & commercial markets.

Joined March 2009
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Roughly two-thirds of private space firms valued at $1 billion reached unicorn status in the last 18 months, reflecting a sharp shift in investor confidence as SpaceX’s IPO galvanizes the industry. See our analysis and the full space unicorn list here: spacenews.com/rounding-up-th…
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Cowboy Space has filed plans with the FCC for Stampede, a proposed 20,000-satellite orbital data center constellation. It’s smaller than the million-satellite system proposed by SpaceX, though still massive by historical standards: spacenews.com/cowboy-files-p…
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Fortunes have been decidedly mixed for the space businesses that merged with a SPAC in search of capital as COVID-19 ravaged the economy. Take a look at where these companies now stand after weathering the pandemic and a few years in the limelight: spacenews.com/spac-class-of-…
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Eutelsat Group CEO @eberneke shares her latest thoughts on OneWeb's next-generation constellation plans and the growing importance of multi-orbit broadband: spacenews.com/making-case-mu…
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The FCC unanimously approved ground rules for allowing SpaceX and other satellite operators to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile partners to keep smartphone users connected beyond cell tower coverage spacenews.com/fcc-approves-d… via @SpaceNews_Inc
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Eutelsat has decided to hold off deploying significantly upgraded OneWeb broadband satellites to instead focus on adding continuity of service capacity for customers with long-term contracts spacenews.com/eutelsat-scale… via @SpaceNews_Inc
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WRCs have for decades played host to a fierce battleground for the space industry as it seeks to fend off repeated advances for its spectrum from bandwidth-hungry terrestrial telcos. This time, space companies face an extra threat: other space companies spacenews.com/battle-of-the-…
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A telco in the Philippines has called dibs on a small GEO spacecraft launching early next year that Astranis had reserved for Andesat, the cellular backhaul provider now facing delays in deploying Peru’s first dedicated telecoms satellite. spacenews.com/delay-for-peru…
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Commercial Project Kuiper satellites are entering production next month without design changes after two recently launched prototypes aced end-to-end tests, the broadband constellation’s vice president of technology said in an interview spacenews.com/project-kuiper… via @SpaceNews_Inc
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The U.K.’s space minister hopes to convince Europe to use OneWeb’s proposed second-generation satellites instead of pursuing a standalone constellation now that the British operator has merged with Eutelsat of France spacenews.com/uk-pushing-to-…
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