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| 10.01.2011 |
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The New Normal, Part I
The summer’s volatile capital markets, fueled by fears of contagion in larger Eurozone member states and a double-dip recession in the United States, may have more of an impact on the satellite sector than the “great recession” of 2008-2009...
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| 09.01.2011 |
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LightSquared and the GPS Lobby
LightSquared, the L-band satellite operator planning to deploy a 4G-LTE (Long Term Evolution-a preliminary 4G standard) Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) telecommunications network, has run into controversy since the milestone launch of the Skyterra 1...
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| 08.01.2011 |
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Cloud Computing and the Satellite Sector
Personal computers and local area networks are on the road to becoming basic display and input/output devices and services, with principal data storage and computer processing power housed in a remote location. Apple Computer’s June announcement that it...
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| 07.01.2011 |
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After the Shuttle: Public/Private Partnerships and Technology Transfers
On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin made the first human flight into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed one earth orbit, and was followed in May 1961 by the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space, aboard his Mercury spacecraft...
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| 06.01.2011 |
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Goodbye to the Space Shuttle
The U.S. Space Shuttle program will come to a close this year, a little more than 30 years after its inaugural flight, with the last flight scheduled for late June. Always a technological marvel and never an economic one, the shuttle reminds us of another...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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ATC OR ASC? Maneuvers Remaking the MSS Sector
Is it really still ancillary terrestrial component (ATC), or should we call it ancillary satellite component? With the U.S. Federal Communications’ Commission’s grant of a waiver in January to MSS operator LightSquared (the former SkyTerra and...
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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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| 02.01.2011 |
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Net Neutrality Update
On Dec. 1 Julius Genachowski, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, announced that the FCC would pursue enactment of rules to ensure “Net Neutrality — unblocked, non-discriminatory access to the Internet. The rules, released Dec...
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| 01.01.2011 |
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The New Congress and the Space Sector
As the 112th U.S. Congress convenes this month, the shock wave created by the November mid-term elections, which produced the largest turnover of seats in the House of Representatives in decades, continues to roil policymakers, stakeholders in those policies...
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| 12.01.2010 |
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Export Credit Agency Financing and the MSS Resurgence
It was not so long ago that the mobile satellite service (MSS) sector looked dead in the water. With the exception of longest-standing incumbent Inmarsat, which boasted a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange and an investment by Harbinger Capital...
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| 11.01.2010 |
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Canada Opens Up
Canada’s Parliament enacted legislation July 12 to remove restrictions on foreign ownership of Canadian-licensed satellite carriers. Prior to the legislation, Canada limited foreign ownership of telecommunications carriers, including satellite carriers...
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| 10.01.2010 |
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The Regulatory Pendulum
For years now, legal, finance and government intelligentsia have propounded a purely competition-based theory of regulation, in which, as long as markets were competitive and transparent, industry-specific types of regulation would become substantially...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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ictQatar-Eutelsat Alliance: Hosted Payload Evolution
Eutelsat and ictQatar announced in May a strategic alliance for the joint procurement of a communications satellite to be positioned in Eutelsat’s 25.5 East orbital slot. ictQatar is the Qatari Supreme Council of Information and Communication...
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| 08.01.2010 |
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Wall Street Reform and the Satellite Sector
President Obama was expected to sign into law in July the Dodd-Frank Act, the most extensive reform of financial services regulation since the Great Depression. The reforms look to be far more extensive than what Wall Street hoped for, including a substantial...
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| 07.01.2010 |
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Zombiesats Attack! (More Brains Needed)
In what has been described as an unprecedented event, the Orbital Sciences-built, Intelsat-owned-and-operated Galaxy 15 satellite stopped communicating with ground controllers April 5. But the satellite’s C-band payload remained operational and active...
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| 06.01.2010 |
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Broadband Pendulum Swings: FCC Hoist With Its Own Petard
In February, we discussed satellite broadband and the pending release of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s National Broadband Plan . Released in March (available at www.broadband.gov), the plan was packed with goals such as 100 megabits...
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| 05.01.2010 |
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China, Russia and the Possibility of ITAR Reform
At SATELLITE 2010, I was privileged to moderate the launch service providers’ panel, bringing together the chief executives of Arianespace, International Launch Services (ILS), Sea Launch and China Great Wall Industry. I was struck anew by how the...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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A New Path to the Moon
In December, we discussed the final report of the White House Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, otherwise known as the Augustine Committee. The report found NASA’s current human spaceflight program to be on an “unsustainable...
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| 03.01.2010 |
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Launch Vehicle Manifesto
The launch services marketplace always has been a tough place to earn a living. These days, there is a combination of strong demand and heavy backload, high barriers to entry, consolidated supply but with new market entrants and former players threatening...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Satellite Broadband’s Future
The December closing of ViaSat’s $568 million cash and stock acquisition of Ka-band satellite broadband provider WildBlue, following November’s $75 million cash investment by SES into Google-backed startup O3b, which plans to provide high speed...
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