Ground Segment
SpaceX's 800 MHz Deal Is a Tower Deal
SpaceX's Grain spectrum will run on towers and rooftops, not satellites. Why that makes American Tower, Crown Castle and SBA the deal's early winners.
Ground Segment
Sovereignty
Why Is Airbus Selling the Factory That Built OneWeb?
Airbus is reviewing a sale of its Merritt Island plant after moving 440 OneWeb satellites to Toulouse. Who buys a two-a-day line that lost its customer?
GEO Economics
Who Gets Bought Next in Satellite M&A. One Seller Has Already Told You
iDirect, Hughes, Iridium, Comtech. Who sells next in satellite M&A, why ground infrastructure clears at a fraction of what spectrum does, and the constraint that now kills more deals than antitrust ever has.
Sovereignty
Poland Bought a Gateway, Not Just Satellites - Deep Dive
Poland is the first EU member state to fund a national module inside IRIS². The Warsaw gateway, not the twelve satellites, is what buys sovereignty.
Ground Segment
Is iDirect a Smart Buy?
ST Engineering marked its ground-segment champion to a floor and opened a strategic review. Here's what a buyer would actually get — and what it's worth.
Ground Segment
The Independent and Regional Satellite Ground-Segment Layer: A 2026 Map
Who owns the teleports and GSaaS networks outside the majors: Arqiva, Speedcast, KSAT, Leaf Space, ATLAS, Goonhilly. Plus why France killed the Eutelsat-EQT carve-out.
Ground Segment
One Ground-Segment Sale Cleared. France Blocked the Other.
Comtech is selling its ground business to Gilat. Eutelsat tried the same carve-out and France blocked it. Why the ground layer is strategic.
Ground Segment
The Reversal: Gilat Buys the Comtech Business That Once Tried to Buy It
Weekly Intelligence Deal Analysis · Ground Segment M&A The Reversal: Gilat Buys the Comtech Business That Once Tried to Buy It Six years after Comtech moved to swallow Gilat whole, a healthier Gilat is carving the crown jewel out of a distressed Comtech for less than a third of