Your March 26 story “U.S. Government Missing Hosted Payload Opportunities” by Peter B. de Selding [page 5] focuses on a subject with critical importance for our nation.
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Mark Rigolle, Chief Executive Officer, O3B Networks
What a difference 18 months makes. O3b Networks in September 2008 announced plans to launch a constellation of Ka-band satellites to provide high-speed connectivity to nations along the equatorial belt that are poorly served by the existing global information grid.
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Michel Fiat, Chief Technical Officer, Thales Alenia Space
The Aug. 31 launch of the Palapa D telecommunications satellite by a Chinese Long March 3B rocket left the satellite in a badly off-target orbit and presented satellite builder ThalesAlenia Space with a problem: What should we do now?
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Stuart Martin, Space Division Director, Logica
Information technology and services giant Logica is a multibillion-dollar company employing some 40,000 people internationally. Unlike many information technology companies that have sought profit in space, Logica still has a space division and it appears to be doing well.
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U.S., Europe Making Progress on Joint Mars Exploration Plan
WASHINGTON — The ruling council of the 18-nation European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to meet Oct. 7-8 in Paris to hear ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain make the case that a long-term cooperation on Mars exploration with NASA is worth the sacrifice in European autonomy.
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India Successfuly Launches Ocean-Monitoring Satellite
BANGALORE, India — India launched an ocean-monitoring satellite and six European nanosatellites Sept. 23 aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) that lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast.
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Volker Liebig, Director, Earth Observation, European Space Agency
Satellite Earth observation is now the biggest single space-spending focus of European governments — bigger than launch vehicles, human spaceflight and space science — and it shows no sign of slowing down.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Chief Executive Officer, TerreStar Corp.
Start-up mobile satellite services operator TerreStar Corp. ought to be able to breathe more easily with the successful July 1 launch and — so far — successful testing of its large TerreStar-1 satellite and its 18-meter-diameter S-band reflector antenna. Its second satellite, TerreStar-2, is already funded and construction well under way. But the mobile satellite services sector is not a normal business, and today’s financial markets are not in their normal state. Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, in short, is not out of the woods.
