In a few years, the satellite industry may be able to look back and see 2005 as a true turning point for consumer and small business satellite broadband direct Internet access services. The incumbent in the U.S. market, Hughes Network Systems (HNS), saw its DIRECWAY service add nearly 6,000 new net subscribers per month, and the company also introduced its new DW7000 platform. This latest equipment enables HNS to address a number of shortcomings in its previous offer, especially return channel speeds, and gives them the flexibility to offer a whole new range of service plans. The year also saw Gilat acquire all outstanding shares of StarBand and merge it with its U.S. subsidiary, Spacenet.
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Building the Business Case for Public Space Travel
In the last few years, personal space travel has become a far more feasible business proposition, but officials in the industry acknowledge that a lot of work will be needed to foster and then sustain businesses that enter the field.
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Satellite Broadband Firm Charges By the Megabyte
A tiny Northern Virginia company hopes to turn a profit this year selling satellite broadband services by the megabyte rather than for a flat monthly fee as is the standard industry practice.
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Air Force Plans SBSS Studies
The U.S. Air Force tentatively plans to award study contracts in March 2007 for a space-surveillance system consisting of four to five satellites that would launch starting in late 2013, according to an industry source.
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Space Adventures Plans for Spaceports in UAE, Singapore
Space Adventures, the Arlington, Va.-based space tourism company, has announced plans for a new suborbital spacecraft and spaceports near major airports in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Singapore that it hopes will draw eager customers seeking the space experience.
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SES Global Defends Strategy After Stock Drops – Company Says Move into End-to-End Satellite Services Already Is Paying Off
SES Global officials were forced to defend their corporate strategy against newly skeptical financial markets, saying the company’s move into end-to-end satellite services was already paying off even if it remains less profitable than SES’s core wholesale transponder-lease business.
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Air Force Begins Work on Advanced Space Radar Technologies
The U.S. Air Force has begun work on some of the technologies that would not be included aboard its initial Space Radar surveillance and imaging satellites under the revised program plan unveiled in early February.
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U.S. Readies ‘Landsat 8’ Acquisition
The U.S. government has taken its first steps toward replacing the old and ailing Landsats 5 and 7 spacecraft with a new land-remote-sensing satellite it expects to put in service in 2011.
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Orbital Raises 2006 Sales Forecast
New orders for commercial telecommunications satellites have allowed Orbital Sciences Corp. to make better use of its plant and equipment and should make it possible for the company’s satellite division to generate operating profit margins of 5 percent to 5.5 percent in the next couple of years, company officials told financial analysts Feb. 22.
