Worldwide Satellite Magazine January 2013 SatMagazine Nanos... Picos... Minis... Micros... Microsatellite Markets Image: UKube-1 from Clyde Space SatMagazine. January 2013, Vol. 5, #9 Publishing Operations This Issue’s Authors Silvano Payne Publisher + Writer Michael Carlowicz, NASA Hartley G. Lesser Editorial Director Chris Forrester, Senior Contributing Editor Pattie Waldt Executive Editor Patrick French, NSR Jill Durfee Sales Director, Editorial Assistant Jos Heyman, Senior Contributing Editor Donald McGee Production Manager Hartley Lesser, Editorial Director Simon Payne Development Manager Jon Manley, Winegard Company Dan Makinster Technical Advisor Kay Sears, Intelsat General Corp. 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Page 14 Moving On Up (ARINC) ........................................................................... Page 14 2 SatMagazine — January 2013 SatMagazine January 2013, Vol. 5, #9 Features Expanding The View On July 22, 2012, exactEarth launched the latest satellite into the Page 16 exactView™ constellation. By Mary Jo Wagner Executive Spotlight: Lisa Scalpone, ViaSat Lisa Scalpone is Vice President Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Page 20 for Services at ViaSat Inc., and also is responsible for government affairs. Truly Educational Experiences... With Nanosats With the winners of the University Nanosat Program-7 to be announced Page 24 shortly... By Jos Heyman Executive Spotlight: Chris O’Dell, Hughes Network Systems Europe Chris heads up the sales and operating organization for the European market Page 32 of Hughes Network Systems, LLC. NSR Analysis: The FSS Market Leader Board Market share in the FSS segment can be measured in any number of ways Page 36 including total revenues or fleet size. By Patrick French Out Of The Blue + Into The Black The night is nowhere near as dark as most of us think. In fact, the Earth is Page 38 never really dark. By Michael Carlowicz VSAT: Five “Must-Have” System Characteristics Satellite communications have come a long way since Russian theorist Page 46 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first conceived... By Jon Manely SatBroadcasting™—Futuresource: 4K Channels In 2014 Page 50 Research consultancy Futuresource expects a number of broadcasters to launch 4K channels during 2014. By Chris Forrester Executive Spotlight: Jim Armor, ATK Jim Armor has been Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Page 54 Spacecraft Systems and Engineering Services at ATK Space Systems, Inc. PIONEERING: Sustaining U.S. Leadership In Space On December 4th, the Space Foundation released PIONEERING: Sustaining Page 58 U.S. Leadership in Space... 4 SatMagazine — January 2013 InfoBeam As well as the ‘Tis Scotland’s First platform and payload elements Scotland’s first satellite The UKube-1 of the mission, will be launched from a nanosatellite has UKube-1 is being Russian Soyuz-2 rocket in been designed and supported by March of 2013. manufactured by three UK Ground UKube-1, built by Clyde Space Clyde Space at their Stations. Led in Glasgow, is now completing high-tech facility at by the STFC final testing at the company’s the West of Scotland Rutherford Appleton headquarters before making Science Park. Laboratory’s the journey to the Baikonur The satellite is one Ground Segment in Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for of the most advanced Oxfordshire, these the launch. of its kind and the crucial elements mission is the pilot will provide the for a collaborative, link to the orbiting national CubeSat spacecraft, as well program bringing as full planning of together UK industry the operations. and academia to fly The supporting educational packages, ground stations test new technologies are provided by and carry out new Dundee and space research quickly Strathclyde and efficiently. Universities. Payloads in The university UKube-1 include of Strathclyde the first GPS device groundstation was aimed at measuring installed by Clyde plasmaspheric space Space during an weather, a camera earlier phase of that will take images the spacecraft of the Earth and test development. # Steve Greenwood of Clyde the effect of radiation Space receives the AMSAT-UK on space hardware FUNcube-2 boards that will be using a new generation incorporated into the of imaging sensor UKube-1 nanosatellite and an experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of using cosmic radiation to Confirming that agreement improve the security had been reached for the of communications Russian rocket to carry UKube-1, satellites and to Clyde Space CEO Craig Clark, flight test lower cost said: “UKube-1 aims to be the electronic systems. first of many nanosatellites It will also carry a produced at Clyde Space, and payload made up of five is a fantastic mission for us to experiments that UK demonstrate our capabilities as students and the public a spacecraft mission lead. I’m can interact with and proud of the team here at Clyde an outreach program Space in achieving such a critical that also allows school milestone in the mission.” children to interact with the spacecraft. UKube-1 is a UK Space Agency mission. The mission has been funded jointly by Clyde Space (mission prime) and a number of funding partners including the UK Space Agency, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Technology Strategy Board and there has also been support from Scottish Enterprise. 6 SatMagazine — January 2013 A Roaring Conclusion To 2012... Arianespace’s Ariane 5 The Arianespace launcher family flight with the Skynet 5D missions performed from French and Mexsat Bicentenario Guiana this year were composed satellite passengers has of seven heavy-lift Ariane 5 wrapped up another flights, two with the medium-lift busy year of company Soyuz, and the lightweight Vega’s launch activity. inaugural launch. During 2012, the Arianespace There was also an additional launcher family performed a Soyuz mission, performed from total of 10 missions from the the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Spaceport in French