BANGKOK — Five years ago Intelsat invested $50 million into geospatial imagery startup BlackSky for reasons that are as difficult to explain now as they were then.
Fleet operators in East Asia, long the world’s most competitive satellite telecommunications market, are now doing something similar as they diversify far away from their core business.
Sky Perfect JSat of Japan is investing into orbital lasers to reduce space debris and in IQPS, which is building a constellation of radar Earth observation satellites.
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