LONDON-Lockheed Martin’s Space & Strategic Missiles Sector and Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications said they have formed a joint venture company designed to provide worldwide communications services.
The new company, Lockheed Martin Intersputnik Ltd., will be headquartered in London with a marketing office in Moscow.
The company said it initially will provide broadcast, fixed communications and Very Small Aperture Terminal services to customers in Eastern Europe, South Asia, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Services later will expand to include direct-to-home video and audio and mobile services, Lockheed noted.
Intersputnik is an international intergovernmental organization that operates a satellite communications system and provides international, regional and domestic communications worldwide.
Lockheed Martin is involved in satellite communications globally.
