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Inmarsat, Intelsat, and SES signed onto the Space Safety Coalition best-practices document as major operators of geostationary orbit satellites.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning two commercial H-2A launches in 2020 for the Inmarsat-6 communications satellite and the UAE Mars orbiter Hope.
The seven non-replacement commercial GEO orders 2019 include three Global Xpress satellites from Inmarsat, Viasat’s Asia-Pacific ViaSat-3 satellite, PSN’s SATRIA satellite, and Space Norway’s two Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission satellites.
Inmarsat announced plans in May 2019 to buy three GX Flex satellites from Airbus.
The International Telecommunication Union deployed 50 satellite phones from Iridium and broadband terminals from Inmarsat to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.
AsiaSat is the second satellite operator to pursue privatization in 2025, following British operator Inmarsat whose shareholders approved a $3,300,000,000 buyout in May.
Capella Space reached an agreement on 2019-08-05 to rely on Addvalue’s Inter-Satellite Data Relay System and Inmarsat satellites to speed up satellite tasking.
Addvalue Innovations of Singapore builds satellite terminals to send and receive data through Inmarsat’s constellation of geosynchronous L-band communications satellites and Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network.
Isotropic Systems has begun full-array beamforming tests to support delivery of first-generation Ka-band products planned for 2021 to strategic customers including SES and Inmarsat.
Inmarsat plans to expand its service offering via its Global Xpress network using Isotropic Systems’ optical beamforming approach.
Connect Bidco is the consortium buying British satellite operator Inmarsat for $3,300,000,000.
Inmarsat’s strategy for GX Flex is to blanket the world with geostationary capacity and then add additional capacity by launching more geostationary satellites.
Inmarsat’s latest satellite order will leverage some of the industrial preparations Airbus made to build OneWeb’s planned 648-satellite constellation.
Inmarsat purchased three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus Defence and Space at the end of May.
The second Inmarsat-6 satellite is scheduled to launch in 2021 on a launcher that has not yet been chosen.
Inmarsat has 13 satellites in geostationary orbit, the latest four of which are Global Xpress spacecraft.
Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
Inmarsat’s $3,300,000,000 buyout by a consortium of private equity and pension firms known as Bidco is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019 and will result in Inmarsat shares ceasing to trade on the London Stock Exchange.
The ASBM satellites will each carry a commercial Ka-band payload operated by Space Norway and leased by Inmarsat.
Inmarsat’s ASBM Ka-band payloads will increase Global Xpress throughput for customers between 65 and 75 degrees north by improving the look angle compared to geostationary satellites.