Government regulatory issues are the main culprit stifling efforts to bring satellite communication services to the developing world, according to a number of industry officials at a forum in Washington sponsored by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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Russia Wants Guarantees U.S. Will Pay for Soyuz
American astronauts could be barred from Russia’s Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center starting this spring until the United States guarantees that it will pay for Soyuz flights to the international space station once Russia’s treaty obligations to provide those flights expires early next year.
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How NASA Might Do More for Astronaut Safety
OPED: How NASA Might Do More for Astronaut Safety
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NASA Officials Create New Launch, Ground Safety Rules
Shuttle launch officials have tweaked liftoff and landing procedures for the first post-Columbia shuttle mission in order to increase safety for both the orbiter’s astronaut crew and observers on the ground.
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SES Global Considers Entering Mobile Services Market
SES Global has begun a broad review of a future mobile satellite-services strategy that the company’s top executive said could include anything from an investment in Inmarsat Ltd. to an S-band play to take advantage of U.S. regulatory approval of satellite-aided ground-based communications networks.
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Teets: Pentagon Must Launch SBIRS By 2015
The U.S. Air Force likely has time to iron out any remaining technical difficulty with its next generation of missile warning satellites without risking a gap in coverage before the current constellation reaches the end of its useful life, according to the service’s departing top official.
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NASA Needs More Science and Technology
N ASA is, as always, in search of its mission. It wants to go back to its roots to the era of the Moon race when it had a clear goal on which to focus. But in reality, NASA left its roots not at the end of the Moon race, but at its start. Before 1962, NASA was a science and technology agency, like the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and parts of the Department of Energy are today.
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Asian DTH Satellite Project Gets Initial Funding
A San Francisco-based company trying to penetrate the Asia-Pacific market for direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television and broadband-Internet services has landed its first round of financing from a pair of venture capital firms.
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Top Weapon Tester: Missile Defense System Is Not Operational
The U.S. national missile defense system deployed in Alaska and Hawaii is still not ready to be declared operational, according to the Pentagon’s top weapon tester.
