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Space Business Review Special Edition – Top Ten Space Business Stories of 2015.

#1 – LEOS BACK IN VOGUE #5 – MAJOR M&A ACTIVITY OneWeb announces plans for 648-smallsat Harris/Exelis; Orbital/ATK; UrtheCast/Deimos; global Internet constellation, raises $500MM in acquisitions of InSync, WAM December 2015 equity investments from Airbus, Bharti, Hughes, Technologies; Panasonic/ITC Global; Planet , QUALCOMM, Coca-Cola, Virgin Group Labs/Blackbridge; EMC/MTN; Honeywell/COM CONTACTS: and Totalplay, establishes JV with Airbus; DEV; SpeedCast acquisitions of Newsat Teleport, SpaceX announces plans for a 4,000- ST Teleport, SAIT Communications, NewCom Dara A. Panahy constellation, scores $1b investment from International, Geolink, Hermes Datacom. 202-835-7521 and Fidelity; UrtheCast reveals plans for 16- #6 – LIGHT APPEARS AT TUNNEL’S END [email protected] imaging constellation; LeoSat plans After three years, LightSquared exits bankruptcy global system to serve high-end enterprise Bijan Ganji in December following approval of its customers; ORBCOMM completes OG2 202-835-7543 restructuring plan and FCC approval of spectrum launches; Networks and Planet Labs plan to [email protected] transfer to newly-formed company, achieves expand constellations; Iridium NEXT launches “framework” settlement with Deere & Co on GPS set to begin in 2016. signal interference. #2 – STRATEGIC ALLIANCES ASCENDING To learn about Milbank’s #7 – EXPORT CREDIT – AND DEBIT SES/Government of Luxembourg for a military Space Business Practice, or This year’s beneficiaries: ViaSat Technologies for view previous issues of the ; Intelsat/Azercosmos ViaSat-2, HISPASAT for Amazonas 5, Space Business Review, for Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38; Intelsat/Kymeta for Azercosmos/Azersky, O3b Networks; Ex-Im please visit www.milbank.com. mTenna™ satellite antennas optimized for Bank and Coface are buffeted by NewSat EpicNG ; /Airbus/ESA for The information contained bankruptcy; EDC rises after Ex-Im Bank Quantum software-based satellite payload; herein is provided for reauthorization hiatus from June to December. informational purposes only Facebook/Eutelsat/Spacecom for a dedicated and should not be construed system to provide broadband services in Africa; #8 – WRC-15 – MISSON ACCOMPLISHED as legal advice on any subject Intelsat/JSAT for Horizons 3e; Telesat/APT Satellite industry defends C-band against IMT; matter. Recipients of this Satellite for Telstar 18 VANTAGE/APSTAR-5C; proposed studies on Ka-band re-allocation; new publication should not take or DigitalGlobe/Saab for the establishment of spectrum allocation for civil aircraft tracking and refrain from taking any action Vricon JV; Harris/exactEarth for advanced possible future additional FSS spectrum. based upon content included global maritime tracking services. herein. If you do not wish to #9 – COMMERCIAL MISSIONS LIFT OFF receive this newsletter, please #3 – FSS ADAPTING TO TRENDS : ARABSAT-6B (BADR-7), send an e-mail to Capacity magnifying (HTS/Ultra-HTS); ARSAT-2, DirecTV-15, GSAT-15, SKY México-1, [email protected] frequency and service types blurring (Ku-, Ka-, L- , , 7; Chinese Long with the word “unsubscribe” in ? – FSS/MSS/BSS?); handling the GEO/LEO March 3B/E: APSTAR-9; ILS Proton: -5 the subject line. divide; demand/usage paradigms changing and F2, TURKSAT 4B; ISRO PSLV: three satellites ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. pricing pressure increasing; broadband mobility comprising the DMC3 constellation, four Spire Prior results do not guarantee growing; emerging markets expanding. ; MHI H-IIA: VANTAGE; similar results. Russian Proton: Express AM-7, Express AM-8; #4 – LAUNCH FIRSTS AND THE FUTURE SpaceX : ABS-3A, , Blue Origin completes New Shepard test flight, © 2015 - Milbank, Tweed, TurkmenÄlem 52E/MonacoSAT. Hadley & McCloy LLP. announces establishment of Cape Canaveral, Florida manufacturing facility; SpaceX Falcon 9 #10 – COMMERCIAL ORDERS MARCH ON receives certification from U.S. Air Force to Airbus: SES-14, first two Inmarsat-6 satellites, launch U.S. military satellites, successfully first Quantum satellite; : ABS-8, completes first stage landing; Long March 6 NYBBSat-1, SES-15, Silkwave-1; China Great debuts; ULA unveils Vulcan, sets inaugural Wall: APSTAR-6C; Lockheed Martin: Arabsat mission for 2019; ESA approves contracts for 6A, Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1; Orbital ATK: development of Vega-C, Ariane 6 and associated geostationary satellite for an undisclosed launch infrastructure; MHI plans development of customer; SSL: Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38, BSat-4a, H-III; ILS begins marketing Angara 1.2; Proton Telkom 4, Telstar 18 VANTAGE/APSTAR-5C, resumes flights; Virgin Galactic kicks off Telstar 19 VANTAGE; : LauncherOne, opens new Long Beach, California Bangabandhu, eight O3b constellation satellites, facility; Rocket Lab announces launch site. all-electric HTS satellite for Eutelsat.

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