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| 08.01.2008 |
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Kazakhstan Keeps Quiet about Kazsat 1 Loss
In June, Kazakhstan’s National Space Agency, KazCosmos, announced that it had lost contact with the nation’s first communications satellite, Kazsat 1. News coverage of this event to date has been minimal at best. Built by Moscow-based Khrunichev...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Satellite Broadband And Politics In Burma
The impact of widespread satellite broadband deployments on previously unserved and underserved regions of the world has been substantial and represents a real win-win for the user and service provider alike. But in the case of certain satellite broadband...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke: 1917-2008
Personal Memories of a Great Man
Thousands of e-mails honoring the life and works of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who passed away on March 19 in a hospital near his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, have poured into the web site of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation (www.clarkefoundation.org). One such...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Number Of Factors May Impede Situational Awareness
Situational awareness cannot be taken for granted, and anything that adversely impacts the performance of GPS signals and satellite navigation equipment needs to be watched closely. In mid-April, the U.S. Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate will...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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The Electra-fication Of Deep Space
A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using the agency’s first software-defined radio (SDR) system in deep space to communicate with spacecraft studying Mars. The system, dubbed Electra, is a fully redundant UHF relay solution aboard...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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NASA And The Space Channel
The time is right for NASA to transform its TV channel — NASA TV —- into something more international, more engaging and more likely to attract a larger audience. In effect, NASA TV should be put to rest and in its place should be — The...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Seeing Clearly And Saving Lives
When it comes to health care, satellites play an increasingly important role. The scope of this activity is enormous and growing, as innovative professionals seek out new and better ways to improve lives, and in many instances, save lives via improved...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Satellite Latency No Problem For Surgeons
Recent advances in minimally invasive robotic telesurgery — now being performed via satellite — are taking on greater significance now that space agencies are planning flights to the moon and perhaps Mars that will last considerably longer than...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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HSDPA Comes Knocking
High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) is a 3G mobile broadband solution that absolutely thrills the growing ranks of users who find their download speeds improved by a factor of four or five. For satellite service providers, HSDPA is opening some new...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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Fix The National Guard Bandwidth Gap
The National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007 was introduced in both the House and Senate (S 430 & HR 718) at the end of January. There are several important provisions to this legislation, including the fact that it seeks to give the National Guard Bureau...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Asia Needs Viable Partnerships
Asia must seriously consider increasing regional cooperation in the satellite realm. Joint satellite-based projects involving disaster response and emergency management, especially in light of the latest earthquake in the region, would be a good place to...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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Malone Backing Several Horses In Broadband Race
As 2006 comes to an end, it cannot be said that John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media Corp., is sitting on the sidelines of the satellite and wireless broadband market. Liberty Media, a holding company that owns interests in a broad range of electronic...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Satellites Strong At Strong Angel 3
By Peter Brown More than 800 emergency response and technical support personnel along with two dozen or so satellite-equipped vehicles descended on San Diego in late August for the Strong Angel 3 demonstration at the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department training...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Satellites Strong At Strong Angel 3
By Peter Brown More than 800 emergency response and technical support personnel along with two dozen or so satellite-equipped vehicles descended on San Diego in late August for the Strong Angel 3 demonstration at the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department training...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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Multimedia Matters: Riding High Over The Last Mile
By Peter J. Brown As we ease into the second half of 2006, the United States rapidly is approaching an impressive milestone with respect to broadband service provision. Exactly when we will be able to declare that 50 million broadband subscribers have signed...
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| 06.01.2006 |
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Multimedia Matters: Asian Partnerships Old And New
With the exception of the frequent Proton launches at Baikonur, Central Asia does not often draw much attention in terms of satellite activities. In Kazakhstan, the countdown should soon begin for the launch of the first Kazakh domestic communications...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Multimedia Matters: Deliver IP Data, But Be Video Aware
By Peter J. Brown With IPTV, maintaining quality of experience brings its own set of challenges and a greater degree of emphasis on IP network management, operations support systems and video quality of service. Ian Roy, vice president of product management...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Multimedia Matters: Religion And Cognition
By Peter J. Brown Spreading the news that the Church of Sweden has inked a deal with Satlynx SA to equip all of its 3,500 churches throughout Sweden with satellite dishes is about as close to religion as this column is ever going to venture. But when it comes...
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| 10.03.2005 |
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Multimedia Matters: The Texas Triple Play
by Peter J. Brown There is the triple play - voice, video and data, all on one bill - and then there is The Texas Triple Play. First of all, let me say that the mid-2005 legislative bombshell in Texas in the form of a statewide franchise for the IPTV or telco...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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MPEG 4 AVC: Out Front In The DTH Broadcasting Sector
By Peter J. Brown As broadcasters and direct-to-home (DTH) service providers prepare for the future, the migration from the established MPEG-2 encoding solution to a much more bandwidth- efficient solution seems almost inevitable. With demand for...
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