http://www.satellitetoday.com Satellite Today en-us 2012 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 7:52:51 EST 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 is in the hands of the owner/operator or user, be... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/38190.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST 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 the latest International Space Station (ISS)... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/38018.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST 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 implications, issued a draft annual report in late October... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/37896.html Thu, 1 Dec 2011 0:00:00 EST 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 hoarded cash on corporate balance sheets. This... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/37689.html Tue, 1 Nov 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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. The satellite industry weathered that economic... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/37530.html Sat, 1 Oct 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 satellite last year. A powerful coalition of service... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/37300.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 is fully embracing cloud computing is the latest... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/37157.html Mon, 1 Aug 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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, Freedom 7. The 50th anniversaries of the two... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/36986.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 beautiful white bird now seen only in museums, the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/36706.html Wed, 1 Jun 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 Mobile Satellite Ventures) to permit terrestrial-only... http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/36364.html Fri, 1 Apr 2011 0:00:00 EDT