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| 05.14.2012 |
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FAA Accelerates Efforts to Integrate Satellite in Air Traffic Control Procedures 
[Satellite News 05-14-12] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated an effort to accelerate the development of satellite-based air traffic control systems in the United States by issuing a $2.77 prime contract to ITT Corp. and a subcontract to...
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| 03.28.2012 |
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Swiss Space Center Director Wants More Funding for Space Debris Project
[Satellite News 03-28-12] The Swiss Space Center hopes to obtain investments from international firms to support its recent efforts to develop a solution that will clean up space debris in orbit. The organization announced the details of its CleanSpace One...
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| 02.01.2012 |
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New Arbitration Rules to Resolve Satellite Disputes
New arbitration rules have recently been launched for resolution of disputes relating to outer space activities. The Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Outer Space Activities was developed by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), based...
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| 01.17.2012 |
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LightSquared Claims Federal Committee Statement Biased on GPS Interference Issue
[Satellite News 01-17-12] LightSquared is disputing a Jan. 13 letter statement from the National Space-Based Positioning Navigation and Timing Committee, which reached a unanimous conclusion that the company’s plan to use Inmarsat lower frequency...
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| 12.01.2011 |
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Satellite Hacking and China’s Role
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. Congressional Commission charged with monitoring the trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (China) and assessing its security...
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| 11.17.2011 |
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Sen. Snowe Warns Genachowski on “One-Sided” Spectrum Auction Plan
[Satellite News 11-17-11] U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Julius Genachowski’s plan to raise $25 billion in potential deficit reduction through spectrum incentive auctions during the next ten years has come under criticism from one of the...
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| 08.12.2011 |
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LightSquared, FCC’s GPS Interference Blame-Game Worries Analysts
[Satellite News 08-12-11] Wholesale 4G LTE network operator LightSquared filed its latest grievance with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Aug. 11, in a letter claiming that the GPS industry failed to comply with the U.S. Department of...
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| 06.20.2011 |
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Operators See Need for Emergency Readiness Protocol
[Satellite News 06-20-11] Issues regarding the readiness of governments and emergency services communications networks in the event of a disruption have received a new level of attention in the wake of recent natural disasters in Japan and Haiti, which in...
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| 06.15.2011 |
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New Interference Test Results Create Setbacks for LightSquared
[Satellite News 06-15-11] LightSquared revealed early results of tests it has been required to undertake by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which show that the network’s hybrid ground- and satellite-based antennas could interfere with...
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| 05.02.2011 |
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Forced Retirement of Roskosmos Chief Long in the Making
[Satellite News 05-02-11] The Russian Government has ordered Anatoly Perminov to retire from his post as chief of the Roskosmos Space Agency and has replaced him with Russian military veteran Vladimir Popovkin, the Kremlin announced April 29...
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| 05.01.2011 |
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Mobile Satellite Service and 911 Calls
Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) carriers that provide interconnected, two-way voice services must be fully equipped to handle 911 emergency calls. This means that providers must establish call centers to receive satellite phone emergency calls and then forward...
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| 04.15.2011 |
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Albania’s Lack of Land Infrastructure Creates Thriving Market for Satellite
[Satellite News 04-15-11] Albania’s communist past has left the Eastern European country of 3 million people with very little terrestrial infrastructure, making it a healthy market for satellite TV and communications. Albanian Satellite Pay-TV service...
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| 03.01.2011 |
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Net Neutrality: The New Rules
In February, we looked ahead to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) effort to enact rules to ensure unblocked, non-discriminatory access to the Internet, a regulatory scheme known as Net Neutrality. The FCC issued the Net Neutrality...
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| 02.08.2011 |
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U.S., French Military Pact Leverages Space Debris Detection Technology
[Satellite News 02-08-11] U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and French Defense Minister Alain Juppe signed a statement of principles Feb. 8 outlining a bilateral agreement between the two countries to share data on space debris and cooperate on reducing the...
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| 06.07.2010 |
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DigitalGlobe Working Overtime to Meet Crisis Event Imagery Demand
[Satellite News 06-07-10] DigitalGlobe Vice President of U.S. Defense Sales Steve Wood recently secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which was driven by an unusually high...
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| 06.01.2010 |
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European Review of Galileo Raises Many Questions
A working document from the European Parliament assesses the mid-term status of the European Union’s satellite navigation program, which consists of a geostationary system called EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) and the...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Satellite Industry Responds to Haiti Disaster
On Jan. 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, devastating the western end of Hispaniola and making life even more difficult for the country’s 9 million citizens. Minutes after the quake was reported on 24 hour news...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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Consumers May Have Larger Impact on Space in Future
When considering commercial space one thinks of satellites. When one thinks about the intersection of commercial space and consumers one thinks of satellite TV, GPS, broadband over satellite and the like. Thus, it has always been and thus it shall ever be...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Pay Attention to U.N. Efforts to Create Space Policy
A committee of the United Nations dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space has proposed the creation of a U.N. space policy. Would this be a good thing? Is anybody paying attention to this proposal? The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space...
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| 01.01.2010 |
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Slump or Growth for Satellite Service Providers in Latin America
According to Andrea Maleter, technical director, Futron, “There is a fair amount of private equity money still going into (Latin America’s) satellite business. Latin American telecoms, in general, has seen a fair amount of consolidation...
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