A Gilat VSAT dish installed for Australian satellite operator Optus. Credit: Gilat
TAMPA, Fla. — Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks plans to expand its defense capabilities by acquiring most of Comtech’s space-related communications business, six years after the U.S. company’s own takeover bid collapsed.
Gilat said June 15 it had agreed to buy Comtech’s satellite ground infrastructure solutions, troposcatter systems that connect users beyond line of sight, engineering and other space communications equipment assets for $157.5 million in cash.
It is Gilat’s second-largest acquisition in the past two years, noted William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma, after snapping up aircraft antenna specialist StellarBlu for $245 million in January 2025.
In January 2020, Comtech announced plans to buy Gilat for $533 million, but the deal was later derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
