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MagazineCongressman Jim Bridenstine: Political Resistance Coming Down
With such a demand for satellite capacity for the warfighter, the relationship between the U.S. Department of State and the commercial satellite industry should be a marriage made in heaven, but it still feels like a long engagement despite encouraging signals from both sides.
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FeatureOperators Request Fair Play, Reliability and Variety from LSPs
Via Satellite caught up with top satellite operators around the world to understand what they would like to get from launch services providers.
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FeatureOperators Want More Flexible, Configurable Payloads from Manufacturers
Operators want bigger, more flexible, more cost-effective satellites. The wishlist is considerable. The question is, can satellite manufacturers step up to the plate and deliver the next generation of satellites even quicker?
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MagazineIt’s Not Them It’s You: Why Top Tech Talent Isn’t Going to the Satellite Industry?
Imagine you’re a young twenty-something and you’ve just graduated college. The entire world is open to you — particularly an entire world of jobs, because you just earned a Science, […]
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MagazineManaging the Ebola Virus: The Importance of Satellites
The death toll from the Ebola virus in West Africa has exceeded 10,000 since the first reported case in December 2013. Cases of the highly contagious disease have been confirmed […]
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MagazineGeneration Next: Denis Eleferov, RSCC
Via Satellite interviews the new blood coming into the satellite industry to get a glimpse of their aspirations and impressions for satellite.
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MagazineFrom Doha to London, How National Pride Drives the Satellite Industry
Editor's note for June 2015
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FeatureReady or Not, Here Comes 4K
Asia's 4K pioneers have raced off with their wake separating them from the rest. While some are preparing for a full market onslaught, the other Asian countries will take a different strategy and start with premium 4K satellite subscriptions. Either way, from niche to mass market, we will soon see just how much of a revolution this resolution can cause.
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MagazineAstro CCO: 4k Is Not Far Away in Malaysia
Astro is a key player in Malaysia's dynamic broadcast market. In an exclusive interview to Via Satellite Asia, Swee Lin Liew, Astro's chief commercial officer talks about the market in Malaysia, the operator's demands for capacity, and how Astro will look to consolidate its leadership position in the market.
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MagazineTrends and Prospects of FSS Capacity Supply and Demand in China
China is estimated to have the world's fourth largest government expenditures for civil space programs. However, its commercial satellite communication market is still in the developing stage.
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MagazineThe Heavy Hitters: Via Satellite’s Excellence Awards Winners
While the Satellite Executive of the Year award is well known, there are many other heroes in the satellite industry, and Via Satellite is determined to not let them all go unsung. In this year's 2014 Excellence Awards, we highlight a larger talent pool for their accomplishments in making the satellite industry and the world a better place.
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FeatureWorldwide Drone Networks: Ready for Prime Time in Satellite
Drones are the latest market for satellite connectivity, with applications ranging from oil and gas offshore inspection to ground infrastructure and maintenance for satellite ground stations themselves.
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MagazineFrom Ticking Time Bomb to Successful Future: Thuraya Rises from the Ashes
Via Satellite caught up with Samer Halawi to get the inside story on how he transformed Thuraya from a failing company to a success story in the satellite industry.
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MagazineUnmanned Vehicles – Land, Air and Sea
Transportation modes that were human run and controlled could be replaced by machine control in the near term. Though there are various technologies available currently, such as advanced parking systems […]
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MagazineAeronautical Regulation in Europe Makes Strong Progress
European Commission (EC) policy, in its drive to advance the “Single Digital Market” — and therefore seamless operation of services across European Union (EU) borders — has encouraged a greater […]
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MagazineSatellite Builds a Future
In 2003 the World Bank issued an RFP to create a communications network with an ambitious mission: to begin the long process to reunite a nation whose history had left […]
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MagazineGeneration Next: Shame’er Shah bin Kamal, Measat
Via Satellite interviews the new blood coming into the satellite industry to get a glimpse of their aspirations and impressions for satellite.
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MagazineGeneration Next: Mubarak Jumah Abdulla and Jaber Saeed Bawazir, Es’hailSat
Via Satellite interviews the new blood coming into the satellite industry to get a glimpse of their aspirations and impressions for satellite.
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MagazineEnabling the ‘Broadband Economy’
The next time you complain about your telecommunications bill think about this: only 40 percent of the world’s population is online. Why? Cost. In developing nations broadband costs about one […]
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MagazineLEO Constellation Announcements: The Industry Reacts
We talk to some of the most influential industry executives about whether Leosat, OneWeb, and SpaceX's satellite ambitions are truly changing the overall landscape and whether traditional operators will be impacted by this.
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FeatureLatin America: Next Challenges and Demands in the Satellite Industry
With HD penetration still in its infancy and possibilities for 4K emerging, demands for satellite capacity based on pay TV should be strong in Latin America.
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MagazineLEO HTS: Once again, a Distraction
Back in the late 1990s, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites were thought to represent the future of the industry, and vast amounts of press attention were lavished on small LEOs, […]
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MagazineSpectrum above 6GHz: The Next Big Issue
Brain surgeons in Edinburgh operating on patients in New Zealand.” This is what Arthur C. Clark predicted in 1964 when he looked into the future to the year 2000. 3-D […]