FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Jason Bates
When a Proton Breeze M rocket suffered a second launch failure in six months, it provided yet another reminder of how difficult placing a satellite in orbit can be and how much of an impact a failure can have across the industry. The Proton vehicle’s...
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VIEW FROM THE TOP
Mark Holmes
Astrium Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium, offers a one-stop shop in the satellite services market, targeting secure communications, Earth observation services and navigation services. The company has posted strong increases in revenue throughout...
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INDUSTRY NEWS
TECHNOLOGY SpaceDev To Develop Seals For NASA SpaceDev Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop...
Glowlink Upgrades Interference Detection System Satellite spectrum monitoring and interference...
Hughes, Intelsat Deliver Rural Cellular Backhaul Services In Brazil Hughes Telecommunicacoes do Brasil signed...
Air Force Extends Weather Agency Contract With Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded the...
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FEATURES
Mark Holmes
Consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. It always has been a buzzword in the satellite industry, but after an intense round of activity that produced some significant transactions among satellite operators, are other sectors preparing to pare down their...
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Greg Berlocher
When introduced, Connexion by Boeing was hailed as a breakthrough productivity tool, but the service lost millions of dollars before being grounded after a few short years. Today, other providers are looking to capitalize on this still promising aircraft...
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Sam Silverstein
Rapid advances in wireless communications and display technologies are transforming how, when and where people receive and consume information, and these changes are creating booming demand for bandwidth that promises to benefit the satellite industry...
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COLUMNS
Green Satellites
Gerry Oberst
Is the satellite industry green? The issue of the environmental impact of satellites was raised by Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta at the SATELLITE 2008 conference in February. “It’s the only type of transmission that works on solar energy,”...
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Dealing With The Credit Crisis
Owen D. Kurtin
There has been plenty of gloom in the first months of 2008 stemming from the credit crisis born of the subprime mortgage meltdown and the end of easy and cheap debt financing that underpinned the highly leveraged private equity transactions that transformed...
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European DTH: A Very Different Model
Max Engel
Last time we discussed the general North American model for the direct-to-home (DTH) business. This month we will consider another structure for delivering DTH programming. Unlike North American DTH providers, those in much of the rest of the world operate on...
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke: 1917-2008
Personal Memories of a Great Man
Scott Chase
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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