[1][2] Spacenet's primary business was providing VSAT and hybrid/terrestrial data network services to government and enterprise customers under the Connexstar brand.
It held around 25% market share in the enterprise VSAT marketplace, according to the Comsys 2005 industry study.
As of 2007, Spacenet equipment and services were in use at about 100,000 enterprise, government, residential and small office sites.
[4] In 1998, GE Americom sold Spacenet's North American operations to VSAT terminal manufacturer Gilat Satellite Networks for $227.5 million in stock and spun the satellite assets off into GE Americom (which later became part of SES).
[8] In 2012, president and chief operating officer Glenn Katz became CEO of Spacenet, replacing Andreas Georghiou.