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| 11.01.2004 |
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Private Equity: Now, The Bad News...
by Michael R.Flynn In our last article, we discussed the positive implications of the recent entry by private equity firms into the satellite operator sector. The financial discipline, strategic focus and managerial acumen that leveraged buyout (LBO)...
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| 10.04.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: Private Equity: First, The Good News....
by Owen D. Kurtin August brought news of the purchase of Intelsat by a private equity consortium, which includes Apollo Management, Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax Partners and Permira Advisors. Also in August, the purchase price in the pending acquisition of...
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| 09.01.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: What EU Enlargement Means To The Space Sector
By Owen D. Kurtin With its changing landscape, The enlargement of the European Union (EU) will have direct implications on future space business conducted both regionally within Europe as well as globally within the commercial and military satellite sectors...
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| 08.02.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: Creating Successful, New Satellite Services
by Michael R. Flynn We have been pondering the growth of Digital Audio Radio Service (DARS) and Direct Broadcast Service (DBS) throughout the last couple of years. Right now, these are the only emerging service success stories of note in the satellite sector...
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| 07.01.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: Structuring A Satellite Joint Venture
by Owen D. Kurtin Last time out, we discussed the kinds of securities that satellite sector companies can issue, and how to stage the offering of different securities for achievement of project milestones in order to achieve the highest grade (therefore low...
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| 06.01.2004 |
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Dollars And Sense: What Kinds Of Securities Make Sense?
by Owen D. Kurtin In our April article, we argued for the satellite industry to pursue higher-grade investment in the resurgent economy and to turn from its historic reliance on high-yield debt. Here are some thoughts on how to do it. High-yield debt is an...
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| 05.03.2004 |
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Dollars And Sense: Military Demand--A Growth Market For Commercial Broadband Capacity?
by Christopher Mecray In recent years, the U.S. military has increasingly relied on commercial capacity to carry broadband signals in support of global operations. For providers swimming in excess capacity, this somewhat nontraditional market has been a...
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| 04.01.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: Prying Open The Capital Markets And Riding The Financial Wave
by Owen D. Kurtin In the resurgent economy, the satellite sector has a chance to take off as never before, as investment capital that has stayed on the sidelines for three years moves back into play. The space industry must refinance itself from the expected...
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| 02.01.2004 |
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Understanding The Economics Of The "Plug and Play" Model
by Owen Kurtin & Michael Flynn Sometimes, you can get too close to what you are examining and lose perspective, like the famous story of the blind man, who, when guided to an elephant, thought he was touching a tree. Why do satellite buses fail while so...
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| 01.01.2004 |
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Dollars and Sense: Government Space Programs And The Looming Budget--Is The Commercial Side Headed For Trouble?
by Christopher Mecray A quick examination of key government space programs yields an overwhelming impression of a long-held maxim in this area: Nearly all programs have massively exceeded budgets, many are delayed and performance visibility remains dim going...
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| 12.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: The State Of Defense And Aerospace Primes--Weathering Divergent Styles
by Christopher Mecray In perhaps one of the best examples of corporate health schizophrenia in recent years, the aerospace/defense industry is enjoying some of the best of times and enduring perhaps some of the worst of times within its own vertical markets...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: Military Space Control--Get Involved
by Carissa Bryce Christensen Space control--assuring that friendly forces can use the space environment while denying its use to the enemy--is perhaps the highest priority space mission of the United States military. The terminology for the elements of the...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: The Long, Not So Hot, Summer--U.S. Launch Sector Struggles For Rationalization
by Chris Mecray The summer of 2003 was clearly tough for the global space market, as commercial players struggled to hold on until some semblance of a recovery kicks in--and faces are turning a disturbing shade of blue. While Europe started off the summer on...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: How Good A Satcom Customer Is The DoD?
by Carissa Bryce Christensen The U.S. Defense Department (DoD) continues to become a bigger customer for commercial satellite communication services. Since September 11, 2001, DoD has increased its use of commercial satellites to support Operation Enduring...
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| 08.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: The Space Market Outlook--Commercial Forecasts Still Look Shaky
by Chris Mecray Probably the most interesting incremental data point on the space market in recent weeks was imparted by Boeing's space business head, Jim Albaugh, speaking to the press at the Paris Air Show this June. Albaugh noted that Boeing is currently...
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| 07.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: The Launch Industry--The High Price Of Preserving The Bottom Line
by Carissa Bryce Christensen Should Europe and the United States be spending billions to protect a launch industry that cannot make it commercially? Painfully, the answer is yes. The launch industry is in crisis. Overcapacity has driven commercial launch...
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| 06.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: "Ground Control To Major Tom"--Is The European Space Industry Permanently Adrift?
by Chris Mecray The European space market, long held together by a thin strand of government support, has begun to dangerously fray. The source of this distress, which comes as no surprise to the space market observer, is a combination of intense demand...
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| 05.01.2003 |
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Dollars And Sense: Making Sense Of National Security Space
by Carissa Bryce Christensen Recent world events demonstrate U.S. dependence on space for executing military operations. U.S. national security space spending will dominate the space industry for the immediate future as struggling space companies target...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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The FY04 Space Budget--Government Space To The Rescue
by Chris Mecray The Bush Administration's FY04 budget submission, sent to Congress in February, appears to provide for generous funding for ongoing space projects. Though it is more challenging to discern administration priorities in space programs versus...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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Bearish On Multimedia
by Douglas Graham Satellite broadband and multimedia have been a tough sell on Wall Street, yet the resistance to the technology among the moneypeople seems questionable given satellite's tremendous potential. Even the sourest skeptics acknowledge its...
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