Alvaro Gimenez was named director of science and robotic exploration at the 18-nation European Space Agency (ESA) in mid-March and was immediately presented with news that NASA, which is ESA’s principal partner in science missions, will be scaling back two previously planned cooperative efforts with ESA.
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Dave Hodgson, Managing Director, DMC International Imaging Ltd.
The Disaster Monitoring Constellation of small, low-orbiting satellites was formed in 2004 around small-satellite specialist Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) of Guildford, England. The governments of Algeria, Britain, China and Nigeria contributed their satellites to the constellation, and the privately funded Deimos of Spain later agreed to put its SSTL-built satellite into the mix.
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Sverre Bisgaard, Chief Executive, Norspace
The standard view of the space hardware industry shows small companies pioneering new products before being merged into larger corporations as a way to better handle the ups and downs of the cyclical marketplace.
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David E. Hershberg, Chief Executive Officer, Globecomm Systems
Globecomm Systems in the past four years has transformed itself from a company building satellite Earth stations and performing some value-added services on the side to one whose business is mostly managed network services. Building Earth stations remains a core competency for the company, but the recent revenue and profit growth is coming from the services side, mainly through contracts with the U.S. government.
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Jonathan Weintraub, Chief Executive, MTN Satellite Communications
Mobile voice and broadband-level data communications is about to become the focus of attention of a large number of satellite players. Once the near-exclusive preserve of Inmarsat of London, whose satellites use L-band frequencies, the market in recent years has seen the increased use of C- and Ku-band for television broadcasts and faster data links.
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Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Executive Director, International Space Science Institute
Roger-Maurice Bonnet is ending his second and final four-year term as president of the Committee on Space Research (Cospar) on a high note. The 38th Cospar Assembly, held in July in Bremen, Germany, broke attendance records set in 2004 in Paris, attracting some 3,800 space scientists from around the world. Especially notable was the substantial Chinese and Indian presence, with the two nations just behind the United States in terms of submitted papers.
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Profile | Claudia Kessler, Chairwoman, Women in Aerospace Europe, and Chief Executive, He Space Holding BV
Women in Aerospace (WIA) celebrates its 25th anniversary this month and its sister organization, Women in Aerospace Europe, its first anniversary. But despite the 24-year age difference, the two organizations share the same goals.
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Letter: A Fast, Cost-effective Commercial Solution For U.S. Military Satellite Communications
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.
