The Joke of Privatization goes on and on!
- From: chatnoir <wolfbat359a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:01:16 -0700 (PDT)
The Bush admin gutted Space funding because of the desire to privatize
everything!:
http://www.caymanmama.com/2008/08/04/spacex-loses-satellites-rocket_200808042900.html
Spaceflights not easy an tasks: Space X loses satellites and rocket
2008-08-04 15:05:24 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Technology News)
Bethesda, Maryland (CaymanMama.com) — Until recently, spaceflights
could easily have been the monopoly of the nations. The USSR and the
USA have battled their way in the space pursuit since the 50’s with
China having jumped into the game by sending scientists into the space
orbit. Ansari X Prize, a private rocketeer, has been working extremely
hard in order to put an end to the monopoly acquired by the states
over spaceflight.
Unfortunately, it has not been a smooth launching as space X has
suffered the loss of its rocket named Falcon 1 yesterday. The sunrise
of the preceding century has witnessed the rise of industrial tycoons
like Rockefeller and Carnegie using their cumulative wealth in
funding causes appearing worthwhile to them. In their comparison, the
modern equivalent most possibly have to be out of the dot.com moguls,
among them, Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal.
Elon Musk has been involved with a great number of essays breaking the
paradigms and many of these efforts have now come to the forefront in
order to make a profit as well as with the prospect of good for all of
humanity.
Unluckily for the spaceflight known as Space X , another rocket has
been lost making it the third failed attempt with respect to the
Falcon1 rocket, a 2 stage launch vehicle being liquid fueled (kerosene
and oxygen), which will form the foundation of its next line up model.
It is not only that Space X has lost a rocket but that the spaceflight
was lost as well which had been slated to carry three small satellites
which belonged to the DoD and NASA.
Meanwhile the Chinese Governmental Program goes on!:
http://rapidtvnews.com/index.php/200808041824/china-and-satellites.html
China, and satellites | Print | Forward
Chris Forrester, on 04-08-2008
The growth in interest in satellite traffic from and to China, and
within the giant country, extends well beyond the Olympic Games.
The past few weeks has seen a slew of unfortunate stories concerning
Eutelsat and one of its (past) clients, the controversial NTDTV. The
channel has had to find another nearby home since Eutelsat suffered a
technical glitch on one of its satellites. But setting this one minor
story aside, a study from Northern Sky Research on China’s satellite
market forecasts a 5.3% rate of growth despite local regulatory and
business challenges.
The report looks at Ku and C-Band demand, and outlines the many
regulatory and market hurdles facing the mainland China market and
provides a segmentation of capacity demand between that provisioned by
China's domestic satellite operator and foreign satellite operators
serving the country.
“Further, the inclusion of the Hong Kong and Macau satellite capacity
market is a critical facet to the understanding of the overall
mainland China assessment because these markets cannot be treated in
exclusion of one another,” says the report.
"The quantification of overspill of television broadcasting signals
nominally meant for the Hong Kong, Macau or greater Asian market is
critical to piecing together the mainland China market," noted Patrick
French, Senior Analyst for NSR and author of the report. "Just one of
the critical drivers for the market is television broadcasters
intentionally targeting the enormous illegal satellite TV market in
China."
Other key developments in China have been the consolidation of its
domestic satellites under one operator, China DBSAT, and the soon-to-
be-launched national DTH service for China. "China is on the verge of
finally initiating a brand new industry, legal DTH satellite TV
services, in the coming months," said French. "As long awaited as this
has been, there still remain a number of key hurdles to get the ball
rolling, not the least of which being the still pending modification
of Decree No. 129 to allow Chinese nationals the right to purchase,
install and receive television services on a satellite dish."
NSR projects that the development of the Chinese DTH market will
follow its own unique path, different than has been seen to date in
Western countries or parallel markets like India, and should
conservatively number nearly 3 million subscribers as of 2013.
"There is no doubt that with its enormous population and ethnic
diversity, skyrocketing cell phone and pay-television subscribership,
and proactive government efforts to bridge the digital divide in the
country, China could offer the most potential for new satellite
transponder demand in all of Asia," stated French. "Yet, NSR's
assessment is that the challenges of turning this potential into a
reality that shows up on the bottom lines of the region’s satellite
operators are very substantial, and the actual rate of growth
projected for the Chinese market, while respectable, certainly falls
short of what it could be."
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