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San Francisco, Calif., January 7, 2025 -  Planet Labs announce  two new members to its executive leadership team,Thomas Murphy has been promoted to General Counsel and Trevor Hammond has returned to Planet as Chief Communications Officer.

David Cavaillolès

Paris, France, December 19, 2024 - ArianeGroup today announce the departure of Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace, who has been at the company’s helm since April 2013. David Cavaillolès will join the Group in January as CEO of Arianespace and member of ArianeGroup’s Executive Committee. 

Dubai, UAE, December 10, 2024--Agility Beyond Space (ABS) announced the appointment of Bruno d’Espinay as Chief Business Development Officer. Based in Dubai, UAE, Bruno will lead ABS’s business development efforts, bringing over 15 years of expertise in driving strategic growth and forging partnerships within the satellite communications industry.

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Chandler, Ariz., December 2, 2024 – Comtech Telecommunications Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors  has unanimously elected Kenneth (Ken) H. Traub as the Executive Chairman of the company. Mark Quinlan has stepped down from his role as Chairman of the Board and will continue serving on the Board. In addition to Mr. Traub’s role in chairing the Board, he will be the senior executive leading the Company. John Ratigan, Comtech’s President and CEO, will report directly to Mr. Traub and they will be working closely together. In addition, former U.S. Army Chief Information Officer, Lieutenant General (Retired) Bruce T. Crawford, has been elected to serve as Lead Independent Director.

Bremen, Germany, November 21, 2024--At the SpaceTechExpo Europe in Bremen, Germany, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with with Christian Schmierer, Founder and CEO of launch service provider Hyimpulse Technologies on their unique solution for the launch services market that promises to lower costs for users. Click her to view the video.

Bremen, Germany, November 21, 2024--At the SpaceTechExpo Europe in Bremen, Germany, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Krasimir Terziev, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development of Orbital Connect.  Click her to view the video.

Chandler, Ariz., November 19, 2024 – Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today the appointment of Daniel Gizinski as President of the Company’s Satellite & Space Communications (“S&S”) segment. With extensive industry leadership experience and a collaborative, hands-on approach to solving customer challenges, Gizinski will play a central role in advancing Comtech’s S&S strategy, including its expanding portfolio of next-generation satellite solutions and vision as a pure-play satellite and space communications company.

Winchester, UK. November 13, 2024 – Arqiva announced the appointment of Mark Steele as Chief of Operations. Mark joined Arqiva in 2015 in a project capacity before being appointed Director of Service Operations later the same year. In 2021 Mark moved to become Director of Field Operations where he was responsible for the hundreds of engineers operating 24/7 in the field to manage UK TV and radio broadcasting and smart utilities networks. 

New York, NY, November 1, 2024 – The World Teleport Association has appointed Randall Barney as Deputy Executive Director effective October 1, 2024. In his new role, he will have primary responsibility for the association’s fundraising, member and industry service programs, events and partnerships.

New York City, NY., October 22, 2024 –  Last night at the Future Leaders Celebration in Silicon Valley, Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) presented the 2024 Promise Awards to Mackenzie Mason of Boeing, Paige Webster of ATLAS Space Operations and Bradley Williams of NASA. The Promise Awards honor the three top-ranked members of the annual “20 Under 35” list of space & satellite employees and entrepreneurs age 35 and under who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the early stages of their career. The three recipients were honored at the 19th annual Future Leaders Celebration in Mountain View, California, in conjunction with Silicon Valley Space Week, produced by SatNews publishers.