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| 06.01.2013 |
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Intelsat IPO Unable to Cure Long Term Problems
Intelsat went forward with a long-awaited initial public offering in April dominated by defiant market conditions and challenges arising from the company’s own debt-laden capital structure. The Intelsat IPO went effective on April 18, with the company...
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| 05.01.2013 |
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Time to Get Serious About Cybersecurity in Space
This column has previously discussed the hacking threat to U.S. satellites (see, “A New Threat: Satellite Hacking and China’s Role,” Via Satellite, December 2011). At that time we assessed the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review...
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| 04.01.2013 |
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Satellite Launch Services in Flux
Commercial satellite launch services continue in a state of flux, with new and returning market entrants threatening the already-thin margins of the existing players, a new wave of launch failures roiling the market, and funding of next generation vehicles...
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| 03.01.2013 |
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Satellite Life Extension: Reaching for the Holy Grail
Satellite life extension continues to hold both revolutionary promise and disruptive menace for the satellite and space industry. The useful lifetime of geosynchronous orbit satellites averages about fifteen years – a limit primarily imposed by the...
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| 02.01.2013 |
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Satellite Export Reform Moves Forward
Satellite technology export controls took a long step forward to rationalization as Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law on January 3, the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which returns authority to the President to...
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| 01.01.2013 |
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The Obama Second Term and Space Policy
The re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama for a second four-year term in a bitterly polarized political climate and era of crisis-level budget deficits can fairly be seen to promise a continuation of the status quo in U.S. Government space policy. That...
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| 12.01.2012 |
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Industrial M&A Recoils: EADS-BAE Talks End
Last month, we discussed the return of industrial M&A in the space sector with the announcement of the acquisition of U.S. satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral (SS/L) by Canadian manufacturer MDA Corp. The plan this month was to discuss the pending...
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| 11.01.2012 |
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Industrial M&A Returns: MDA-SS/L and EADS-BAE
Industrial M&A returned to the space sector over the summer with a vengeance, with the announcement of the acquisition of Palo Alto, California-based satellite manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) by Canadian manufacturer MDA Corp. During the summer...
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| 10.01.2012 |
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Pac-Man Gets Swallowed: DigitalGlobe Acquires GeoEye
On July 23, earth-imaging provider DigitalGlobe Inc. announced that it agreed to acquire competitor GeoEye Inc. for approximately $900 million. GeoEye’s principal shareholder, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, agreed to vote its shares in...
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| 09.01.2012 |
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The Space Version of ‘Too Big to Fail’
In columns during the last four years, we have looked at the effects of the recession on the satellite and space sector. We decried bailouts of the financial services and automobile industries under the justification of being ‘too big to fail’...
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| 08.01.2012 |
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A Tale of Two Dragons
The May flight of the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) marked a milestone in human spaceflight: the first mission by a privately owned, commercial company (one only 10 years old) to...
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| 07.01.2012 |
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Risk Factors: LightSquared Bankruptcy and Globalstar Arbitration
In April, we reported on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) suspension of the conditional waiver of license conditions it had granted in 2011 to ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) operator LightSquared to allow the satellite operator to...
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| 06.01.2012 |
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Satellite Finance: Jobs Act Eases Capital Raising
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups” (JOBS) Act, enacted on April 5, 2012, is the first significant liberalization of the U.S. capital markets regulatory regime since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 clamped down on securities offerings in the wake...
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| 05.01.2012 |
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FSS and MSS: Blurring the Lines
At SATELLITE 2012, one of the most frequently discussed subtexts to more familiar topics was the blurring of the lines between fixed and mobile satellite service (FSS and MSS). In fact, Via Satellite’s Satellite Executive of the Year, Matt Desch, CEO of...
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| 04.01.2012 |
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FCC Says ‘No’ To LightSquared
In September, we reviewed the controversy between LightSquared, the satellite operator planning to deploy a 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution-a preliminary 4G standard) Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) wholesale telecommunications network, and the global...
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| 03.01.2012 |
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Satellite Life Extension: The Technology and the Economics
The useful lifetime of geosynchronous orbit satellites averages about 15 years, a limit primarily imposed by the exhaustion of propellant aboard. The propellant is needed for “station-keeping” — maintaining the satellite in its orbital slot...
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| 02.01.2012 |
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Satellites and Freedom
We usually discuss satellite technology in politically neutral terms, recognizing its achievements in communications, media, navigation, mapping and other fields, while at best tacitly acknowledging that the same capabilities can do harm, as well. The choice...
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| 01.01.2012 |
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Human Space Access: A Dangerous Waiting Game?
The dangers inherent for access to space, as well as the security of crew members already there in the period between the retirement of the space shuttle and the arrival of next-generation systems not yet cleared for regular operations, were highlighted when...
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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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| 11.01.2011 |
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The New Normal, Part II
Last month, we reviewed the fiscal, economic and political factors in both the Eurozone and the United States underlying “the new normal,” an emerging era of low growth, low interest rates, slashed government spending, higher unemployment and...
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