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?
Ground Segment
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