SIA PRESIDENT’S REPORT – MEMBER NEWS FOR JUNE 2021

Since our last SIA Member News Summary, press releases and posts from many SIA Members including Eutelsat, Hawkeye 360, Hughes, Inmarsat, Iridium, Lockheed Martin, OneWeb, Planet, SES, Spire, ULA and Viasat have released news. Please see the summary of stories and postings below and click on the COMPANY LINK for more details.

(Above) Earlier this year, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur Pathfinder Tanking Test (PTT) rolls to the pad at Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral for the first time for integrated testing. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of United Launch Alliance)

ONEWEB On June 29th, OneWeb announced it had secured further fund-raising on the anniversary of the successful bid by UK Government and Bharti Global (Bharti) to purchase OneWeb from US Chapter 11 to bring its total funding to $2.4 billion. OneWeb has completed its transformation with the exercise of a Call Option by Bharti to invest an additional $500m into the company. The announcement comes as OneWeb prepares for its eighth launch on 1st July, delivering highly anticipated and strategically valuable Arctic region coverage down to 50 degrees latitude.

IRIDIUM On June 24th Iridium announced it had been awarded a research and development contract worth up to $30 million by the United States Army (Army) to develop a payload to be hosted on small satellites that supports navigation systems, guidance and control for the global positioning system (GPS) and GPS- denied precision systems. The new experimental Iridium payload is intended to be hosted by another Low Earth Orbit (LEO) commercial satellite constellation, complementing the Iridium® constellation's capabilities. Through this contract the Army intends to develop this payload to support the concept of a rapidly deployable smallsat constellation to provide more effective sensor-to-soldier data transmission when in the field. The development of this new payload is based on Iridium Burst® technology, a unique service that can transmit data to millions of enabled devices at a time from space.

EUTELSAT On June 24th, Eutelsat Communications had launched Eutelsat ADVANCE, an end-to-end managed connectivity service, including network interconnection, a management portal and APIs for service providers and their clients, terrestrial connectivity, Ku and Ka-band capacity, and satellite terminals. Available via Eutelsat’s certified network of partners, Eutelsat ADVANCE enables clients to enhance their SIA PRESIDENT’S REPORT – MEMBER NEWS FOR JUNE 2021

service portfolio by increasing the range of services they offer, leveraging Eutelsat’s powerful global capabilities and 24/7 support. The new solution includes a suite of tailored offerings addressing multiple markets, notably Maritime, Aviation, Enterprise for businesses including energy, construction, banking and retail, Government and Telecoms - with custom backhaul solutions supporting all 4G/5G coverage expansion needs and high-speed transmission links.

ONEWEB On June 23rd, OneWeb announced plans to launch 36 satellites on Thursday, 1 July 2021, marking the completion of its ‘Five to 50’ ambition enabling connectivity services for the first time to the 50th parallel and above by the year end. Service demonstrations will begin this summer in several key locations – including Alaska and Canada – as OneWeb prepares for full commercial service in these regions in the next six months. Offering enterprise grade connectivity services, the company has already announced distribution partnerships across several industries including with ROCK Networks, AST Group, PDI, Alaska Communications and others, as OneWeb expands its global capabilities. The company continues to engage with telecommunications providers, ISPs, governments and more worldwide to offer its low latency, high speed connectivity services and sees growing demand for new connectivity services to connect the hardest to reach places. This launch adds another 36 satellites to OneWeb’s 648 LEO satellite fleet that will deliver global connectivity and represents 100 percent of the satellites required to enable its solution to reach all regions north of 50 degrees latitude.

INMARSAT On June 23rd, Inmarsat Government announced that its Senior Vice President of Government Strategy and Policy, Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, was named to WashingtonExec’s “Top Space Execs to Watch in 2021” list. This list recognizes the directors, managers, leaders and C-suite executives in industry and government who are helping to advance the U.S. Space Mission. Cowen-Hirsch was recognized for her work alongside the Inmarsat Government team to ensure that the company’s U.S. government customers had unwavering access and seamless connectivity to the critical satellite communications capabilities required to support their missions.

HUGHES On June 22nd, Hughes posted it is helping small businesses prepare for an active 2021 hurricane season with its subscription-based Internet backup service HughesNet® Internet Continuity and five tips for storm preparation. Each year, hurricanes pose a threat to land-based Internet access over cable, fiber, DSL, and cellular infrastructure, resulting in the loss of essential small business functions such as credit card processing and connection to web-based applications. “Natural disasters such as hurricanes threaten land- based connections and create an urgent need for communications,” said Peter Gulla, senior vice president, Hughes. “One of many advantages of satellite connectivity is that the technology is 22,000 miles above the earth – outside the impact of severe storms. HughesNet Internet Continuity uses satellites to help small businesses maintain access when wired Internet infrastructure is damaged.”

PLANET On June 21st, Planet released an image of the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead dramatically showing the impacts of the ongoing drought. The drought in the U.S. has left the Dam’s two emergency spillways high and dry. When this SkySat image was taken the spillways were about 124 feet above the surface of Lake Mead, which is now lower than at any other time since the reservoir was filled in the late 1930s.

LOCKHEED MARTIN On June 17th, Lockheed Martin announced that the fifth Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite designed and built by the Company was heading to its orbit 12,550 miles above earth. This marks another step in supporting the U.S. Space Force's GPS satellite constellation modernization efforts. Launched early that day, GPS III Space Vehicle 05 (SV05) is the latest next- generation GPS III satellite, a warfighting system owned and operated by the Space Force. GPS III SV05 will be the 24th Military Code (M-Code) signal-enabled GPS space vehicle on orbit, completing the constellation's baseline requirement to provide our military forces a more-secure, harder-to-jam and spoof GPS signal. GPS III satellites provide significant capability advancements over earlier-designed GPS satellites on orbit. Part of U.S. critical national infrastructure, GPS drives an estimated $300 billion in SIA PRESIDENT’S REPORT – MEMBER NEWS FOR JUNE 2021

annual economic benefits and is responsible for $1.4 trillion since its inception. Globally, more than 4 billion military, civil and commercial users depend on GPS' positioning, navigation and timing signals.

SPIRE On June 15th, Spire announced the expansion of its Maritime Weather solutions portfolio. By providing more accurate and reliable insights, Spire is continuing to support its customers as a trusted source for open ocean weather data. The Spire Weather team has added 10 years of historical weather data from across the entire planet. Historical data is vital for understanding weather patterns, planning future voyages, retroactive investigations, and daily marine activities worldwide. Reliable weather forecasts allow businesses to improve planning and reduce risk. Spire’s historical data, like its forecast data, is gridded with 12km resolution – which allows customers to get weather data in uniform resolution. “Open ocean forecasts used to be laden with errors, but now thanks to radio occultation technology, forecasts are far more accurate,” said Simon van den Dries, General Manager, Spire Maritime. Spire’s Maritime Weather team is also launching six new industry-focused solutions combining historical and forecast variables customized for business needs and providing data specific to the customer segment use case. These new data solutions are centered around shipping and logistics, ports and terminals, finance and insurance, oil and gas, government and security, and the environment.

INMARSAT On June 7th, Inmarsat Government posted the following from NASA. “Roaming isn’t available in space, so network access is an issue as satellites and spacecraft orbit the Earth. This will soon change as NASA develops a new Wideband Ka-band communications terminal, which is a transceiver that operates over government and commercial Ka-band spectrum allocations (17.7 GHz – 31 GHz). This roaming function will give spacecraft the ability to seamlessly connect to various communications networks and allow for multi-access points of services, lower latency, and lower costs. “This is a first for a Ka-band user terminal,” said Nang Pham, Wideband Project Manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. “The versatile capabilities demonstrated by the terminal bring us a step closer to space communications interoperability for future NASA near-Earth missions.” The new terminal will support NASA’s plans to rely exclusively on commercial providers for near-Earth space communications and navigation operations by the mid-2030s and further foster an affordable and robust space commercialization path in the United States.”

HAWKEYE 360 On June 7th, HawkEye 360 Inc., announced that its “Cluster 3” satellites had arrived at their Cape Canaveral launch site. The trio of HawkEye 360 second generation satellites, each containing an RF payload developed by HawkEye 360, is scheduled to launch as early as June aboard Spaceflight Inc.’s SXRS-5 mission. Cluster 3 will join HawkEye 360’s Cluster 2 and the Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites on orbit, further expanding the company’s baseline constellation. The newest satellites will significantly expand the current constellation’s collection capacity and reduce revisit rates. Seven additional next- generation clusters — fully funded and scheduled for launch in 2021 and 2022 — will complete the baseline constellation, enabling revisit rates as rapid as 20 minutes to support time-sensitive defense, security and commercial applications. “We are extremely pleased to be moving forward with this expansion of our industry-leading constellation, which will accelerate our application of valuable RF geospatial intelligence to a host of industries,” said CEO John Serafini. “Cluster 2 has given us a strong indication of what these next-generation satellites can deliver, and we are eager to put Cluster 3 to work serving U.S. government, international government, commercial and humanitarian interests.”

VIASAT On June 7th, Viasat announced the first satellite in its ViaSat-3 global constellation, which will serve the Americas and the surrounding oceans regions, had reached a major milestone with completion of payload integration and performance testing, and shipment to the Boeing Satellite Systems facility in El Segundo, Calif. The payload will be integrated with the bus module, which is based on Boeing's proven 702 platform, and the satellite will then undergo a complete series of environmental testing to simulate the rigors of launch and operation in the harsh environment of space. Launch is targeted for early calendar year 2022. Each ViaSat-3 satellite is expected to generate over 20kW of payload power, making it among the SIA PRESIDENT’S REPORT – MEMBER NEWS FOR JUNE 2021

highest-power commercial satellites ever built. Just three of these satellites will cover nearly the entire globe, and are expected to deliver over 3,000 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of capacity — or 3 Terabits per second (Tbps) total — for 15 years or more. The ViaSat-3 constellation is anticipated to have roughly eight times more capacity than Viasat's current fleet combined. Vast amounts of bandwidth are needed to address increased demand for high speed internet access — particularly in the video streaming realm. ViaSat-3 represents a major advancement in Viasat's mission to extend broadband internet service to the many places around the world that don't have it.

INMARSAT On June 7th, Inmarsat Government posted the following blog post by its Chief Commercial Officer Tom Costello. “In the introduction blog of this series, I outlined the five key attributes of satellite communications (SATCOM) support for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) users: global coverage, a flexible and highly available network, SWaP-optimized user terminals, responsive integration and flexible service plans. In this blog, I will elaborate upon the first attribute, persistent global coverage. The UAS community faces challenges in finding a compatible SATCOM network with the required coverage and capability. They seek platforms that can dispatch literarily anywhere and stay on mission for hours or even days, flying non-stop.” To read more, please click on the INMARSAT link above.

SES On June 3rd, SES Government Solutions announced SES Government Solutions (SES GS) and Isotropic Systems, a leading developer of transformational broadband terminal technologies, announced the successful completion of the first of two milestone next-generation antenna trials with the U.S. Military. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, through the innovative Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program, are evaluating the ability of Isotropic Systems’ optical beamforming antenna to enable frontline armed forces to access high-speed, real-time data simultaneously over multiple commercial and military satellites. First phase dual-beam tests conducted at the Harwell Science, Technology and Innovation Campus near Oxford, UK, have successfully demonstrated transformational optics at the core of Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal that are fully capable of linking with multiple satellites at the same time. Over-the-air (OTA) trials conducted at an SES teleport in Port St. Lucie, Florida verified the Isotropic Systems’ high-performance multi-beam platform meets military requirements to acquire and track SES’ O3b MEO satellites. Phase two trials will test Isotropic Systems’ latest antenna prototype over links with SES satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO), demonstrating seamless satellite-to-satellite transitions and a redundant, resilient leap in wartime communications.

ULA On Apr 15th, ULA announced that NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) had added United Launch Alliance’s next generation rocket, the Vulcan Centaur, to the NASA Launch Services II (NLS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract in accordance with the on-ramp provision of NLS II. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has added our Vulcan Centaur rocket to the catalogue of launch vehicles available to support future space exploration missions,” said Tory Bruno, ULA’s president and CEO. “Vulcan Centaur, a single core vehicle, will support challenging missions with unique second stage capabilities unmatched in the industry and we look forward to a continued partnership with NASA LSP.” ULA and its heritage rockets have partnered with NASA to explore the universe and have launched spacecraft to every planet in the solar system including all 20 U.S. led missions to Mars. In addition to missions that explore the universe, ULA and its heritage rockets have partnered with NASA to explore planet Earth, have launched every NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite and all U.S. weather satellites currently in operation. Overall, ULA has launched 35 missions for NASA LSP with 100% mission success.

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