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Click Below to Download SATMAGAZINE.COM October 2007 Worldwide Satellite Magazine Vol. 5 No. 6 WHEN FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION SATMAGAZINE COVER STORY REGULAR DEPARMENTS 7 Failure Is Not An Option : A Process For Halting Launches 03 EDITOR’S LETTER & Satellite On Orbit Failures 23 SPOTLIGHT 11 MARKET INTELLIGENCE by Len Losik 17 FEATURED SATELLITE Rockets blow up and have been doing so for quite some time. Every 31 CALENDAR OF EVENTS other month, or so it seems, a news story reports another billion-dol- 32 COMPANY ACTIVITY lar rocket destroyed during an attempt to place a satellite into orbit. 34 EXECUTIVE TRANSITIONS With all the latest technological breakthroughs, can’t somebody invent a technology 34 NEW PRODUCTS or a system to stabilize rockets? FOLLOW-UP 5 Apax Partners Gloms Onto Telenor With Aplomb by Hartley Lesser The somewhat unusual financial aspect of Norwegian-based Telenor’s acquisition by Apax Partners revolves around a 30-year old firm attuned to global private equity fund- ing and deciding to continue their investments within the global communications sector. FEATURES 11 The Transformation Of Oil & Gas Operations… Via Satellite by David Hartshorn Oil and gas companies are using a variety of wireless platforms to talk, fax, e-mail and transfer their all important data to and from their remote offices, staging areas, well sites, off-shore rigs and yes, even ships. 14 HDTV: Satellite’s best friend by Chris Forrester CONTENTS The introduction of an increasing number of flat panel televisions is great news for HDTV fans, but as the industry has recognised for some time, flat-panel sets do not necessarily do the best for a broadcaster’s expensively transmitted images. Which is where satellite has moved in nicely. Vol. 5 No. 6 October 2007 18 The Threat to C-band Satellite Services by Matthew Botwin The satellite systems that operate in the 3.4 to 4.2 GHz band are essential links of communication for millions of peo- ple, corporations and defense-related systems. Regrettably, these links are now also at great risk. 21 Broaden Your Broadband Perspective—Think Aviation by David Gross The aviation broadband industry is now poised to transform the commercial satellite data service from a narrower ma- rine and gas focus to become a more inclusive service that will include millions of air passengers. 23 Satcoms Save Lives by Danielle Edwards Previously, satcoms lacked the key and necessary features required by groups such as the fire service and the police. Thanks to rapid technological satcom improvements, this situation has changed. 26 On the Lightwave… Optically speaking by Jörg Schmidt Optical fibres provide additional reliability when compared to coaxial cables, due to an effective galvanic isolation be- tween the antennas, the feeder location, and its infrastructures. 28 Battling Asia’s Signal Pirates by Peter I. Galace The APEC’s call to anti-piracy action was brought on by the stark reality that pay-TV piracy in Asia now exceeds $1 bil- lion and is on the rise. EDITOR’S LETTER H ere’s another stellar issue of SatMagazine Gaylord Palms Resort and is sponsored SATMAGAZINE for the improvement of your gray matter and by AFCEA. Check out www.milcom.org for Production Team the subsequent firing of synapses as you de- all the details. An added bonus will also posit into your mind all you have learned! As be the distribution of our FIRST PRINTED EDITORIAL none of us truly understands everything there edition of MilsatMagazine! is to know regarding our vibrant industry, I Silvano Payne hope the articles in SatMagazine and our sis- This issue’s cover story is authored by Len Publisher ter publication, MilsatMagazine, prove worth- Losik whose Telemetry Prognostics informa- while for your individual needs. tion should be of interest to any company Hartley Lesser operating within the satellite launch sector Editorial Director We received a letter from Mr. Ivor McClure — Failure Is Not An Option…Taking an in-depth of the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in look at the transformation of oil and gas Chris Forrester Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom, regarding operations is the expert analysis by author Editor, Europe, Middle East a… “...very basic and glaring error about the and subject-matter expert David Hartshorn in & Africa origins of satcoms. Telstar was in fact the first the Marketing Intelligence column…European active telecommunications satellite, built by Editor, columnist and author Chris Forrester Peter I. Galace AT&T’s Bell Labs and launched by NASA on managed a busy schedule during the recent Editor, Asia-Pacific 10 July 1962. It heralded a period of experi- IBC exhibition in Amsterdam. His travels mentation between the satellite earth stations throughout the trade show served an excellent COLUMNISTS at Goonhilly Downs in the UK, Andover in the purpose — he reports some of his findings in USA and Pleumeur Bodou, France. However, his featured European column entitled HDTV: David Hartshorn, Martin Jarrold Telstar was never a geo orbiting satellite; the Satellite’s Best Friend. Extremely interesting Market Intelligence orbit was elliptical with a period of around and holding great portent for the satellite in- 158 minutes giving periods of mutual vis- dustry in the years to come! Tara Giunta ibility between Goonhilly and Andover, which Regulatory Issues varied between 8 minutes and 40 minutes but Author David Gross, the Chief Analyst at averaged around 20 minutes. Early Bird was Freesky Research LLC, weighs in with his look CONTRIBUTING WRITERS the first commercial geo orbiting satellite.” at broadband and aviation… the ever present controversy surrounding BWA services using Matthew Botwin There were actually two Bell Telephone Labo- the C-band is tackled by Matthew Botwin in Danielle Edwards ratories, which managed Telstar satellites, Point Of View… Jörg Schmidt, the owner and David Gross with the second vehicle quite similar in pay- founder of DEV Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. Len Losik load to Telstar 1. In Telstar 2, the command KG, writes about the need for high signal fi- Jörg Schmidt decoders used radiation-resistant transistors. delity for the new types of signals, especially The second Telstar launched aboard a Delta digitally modulated HDTV with “On The Light- SALES rocket on May 7, 1963, and remained in op- wave… Optically Speaking”… Danielle Edwards eration until May of 1965. Thanks to possess- of NSSL reveals how satcoms can save lives, Jill Durfee ing a higher apogee than Telstar 1, time in and I add a perfect example of how such is al- Advertising Director view for ground stations was increased while ready being accomplished by Télécoms Sans [email protected] Van Allen belts exposure was decreased and Frontières… Asia-Pacific Editor and author Telstar 2 operated for a total of 2 years. Peter Gallace offers an in-depth exam of the in- PRODUCTION come degenerating issues of signal piracy in Toward the end of this month MILCOM Asia… I also take a look at the GE-23 satellite Simon Payne 2007 occurs. This show offers a robust and the Apax Partners acquisition of Telenor Creative Manager program focusing on the most recent and the merging of that company into Vizada. technologies of interest to government Published monthly by and defense communications’ firms. Tech- This is a dynamic industry and we continue to Satnews Publishers nologists and military/industry leaders work at ensuring SatMagazine, MilsatMagazine, 800 Siesta Way, will be on hand in Orlando to share infor- and our daily and weekly news blasts meet Sonoma, CA 95476 USA mation with the expected 4,000 attend- both your needs and expectations. Please Phone (707) 939-9306 ees. 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