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2005 – Hybrid solutions are combining satellite and terrestrial capabilities

Bundled offerings and partnerships with terrestrial companies are expanding.New spectrum allocations support this growth, includingMSS with Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC).Advanced mobile phone services with data and video are leveraging satellite backhaul capabilities. Related Resources 2005 – Mobile Satellite Service Satellite Design Launch failures by number of satellites lost, 2003-2023 Cumulative spacecraft on orbit, 1957-2023 Space insurance industry…

2005 – Whither The Remote Sensing Market Place — Dr. Ray Williamson

From Sidebar — “Satellite imagery sales were helped along by increasing tensions in Afghanistan and then Iraq. In time, foreign purchases and major contracts for data (ClearView and NextView) from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) brought growth and a measure of stability to the data market. The acquisition of Space Imaging by ORBIMAGE [now known as GeoEye] has also further stabilized the industry.”

2005 – Broadband-to-Home

Sidebar — Consumer broadband services offered by WildBlue Communications, Inc. and Telesat Canada in North America attracted thousands of customers by the end of 2005, and hundreds of thousands are expected to sign up by the end of 2006. “This rate of growth would not be possible without effective network operations on a scale never before seen on satellite,” says Marc…