Astrium-Inmarsat GX: it’s on – as far as we can tell

In case you don’t get the DigitalShip newsletter – and you really should – here is today’s story on the Astrium-Inmarsat GX tie-up.

http://www.thedigitalship.com/conferences/2006/displaynews.php?NewsID=2462&

Just how an MOU differs from a firm agreement remains to be seen but as Tim Farrar pointed out this afternoon it looks more like a capacity lease agreement than a distribution deal.

And didn’t Astrium express reservations at SMM that the kind of capacity that would make GX attractive was already accounted for?

No doubt we will be put straight in coming days.