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Airbus Defence and Space will build three approximately 3,000-kilogram small GEO satellites for Inmarsat based on the OneSat platform.
Airbus finished 2019 with six GEO orders, including three for Inmarsat, one for Measat, and two to be built as lead partner with Thales Alenia Space for Hisdesat.
Inmarsat was the third satellite operator to delist from public markets in 2019, following Hong Kong-based AsiaSat and London-based Avanti in September 2019.
Inmarsat operates 14 geostationary communications satellites.
Connect Bidco offered $7.21 per share for Inmarsat.
The High Court of Justice in England and Wales approved the buyout of Inmarsat on 2019-12-03.
Inmarsat reported $36,100,000 in profit on $327,300,000 in revenue for July through September 2019, its last public quarter before the buyout.
Inmarsat reported a loss of $89,100,000 on $1,060,000,000 in revenue for the first nine months of 2019.
A majority of Inmarsat shareholders constituting 79% of the operator’s shares approved the merger in May 2019.
A $3,300,000,000 buyout of Inmarsat was completed with the company’s delisting.
Ligado appeared much closer to gaining approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a 0.005 kg network, which could trigger $300,000,000 in Ligado payments to Inmarsat spread across the remainder of 2019 and into 2020.
With GX-5 on orbit, Inmarsat has 14 satellites in geostationary orbit.
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched on 2019-11-26 from the Guiana Space Center at 4:23 p.m. Eastern carrying Egypt’s TIBA-1 satellite and Inmarsat’s GX-5 satellite.
Inmarsat plans to operate GX-5 over Europe and the Middle East to provide Ka-band Wi-Fi services for airplanes and boats.
Inmarsat plans three reprogrammable Inmarsat-7 satellites from Airbus with launches anticipated by 2023.
GX-5 is the first of eight additional satellites and payloads Inmarsat ordered after completing its first-generation Global Xpress system.
Inmarsat’s Inmarsat-6 F1 is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket and Inmarsat-6 F2 is scheduled for launch in 2021 on a to-be-announced launcher, with both satellites sourced from Airbus.
Inmarsat has two payloads scheduled to launch in 2022 on Space Norway satellites being built by Northrop Grumman.
Addvalue developed the IDRS terminal with Inmarsat to send data through Inmarsat’s L-band constellation.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States concluded that Bidco's $3,300,000,000 acquisition of Inmarsat has no unresolved national security issues.