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Space companies are a moonshot borne aloft by the rocket fuel of cheap money
Veteran telecoms executive and dealmaker Rajeev Suri to take reins at satellite group next month
A dependence on satellite broadcasting revenues has become a weakness as streaming proliferates
Investment comes after Japanese company forced satellite group into bankruptcy last year
Executive chairman expects to complete first fundraising since rescue within weeks
Goal will be to launch global commercial internet service focusing on remote areas by 2022
UK has to be ready to protect and defend critical national interests in orbit, warns military chief
Delay to Ariane 6 rocket adds to satellite launcher’s challenges in an upended market
Isar Aerospace bets on boom in small satellites and aims for launch by end of 2021
Pentagon planners worry about China’s extraterrestrial advances — including its version of GPS
Identifying major leaks of powerful greenhouse gas could aid fight against climate change
Billionaire businessman to invest $50m in failed satellite broadband company
Former cold war rivals could be extending their conflict into a new theatre
Decision bolsters Britain’s ambitions to be at forefront of space technology
British government’s joint venture with Bharti will compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink
Controversial bid for failed satellite provider exposes rifts as UK scales back alternative to Galileo
Recyclers turn to AI-powered robots to counter China’s plastic import ban; historians harness machine learning to solve ancient puzzles; and farmers pick high-tech robotics to help bring in the harvest
UK spies an opportunity but communications company’s technology is still a work in progress
Government said to expect golden share in project, giving it say over any future sale and over access to platform
Move comes as government explores options for global navigation system
Work under way to see if much cheaper navigation platform via struggling OneWeb is feasible
Start-up will piggyback on SpaceX launches to put more high-resolution photography satellites in orbit
The cost of getting into orbit are going down while the profit potential is going up
Start-up that wanted to beam broadband internet from space had raised $3bn from investors
Veteran trader urges the satellite operator to fight US regulator’s 5G spectrum plan
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