Yeap. I remember someone comment that the launch business shoot themselves in the foot in the late 90's. When that Delta III blew up, it caused a transponder shortage in the country that moved a lot of broadcasters to digital. Digiital caused the oversupply of transponders that we currently see. <br /><br />As a former owner of C/Ku system i lothe digital. Anyone who enjoyed watching GE-1 during nightly news knows what I am talking about (I have on tape the current host of NBC nightly news cracking a dirty joke during an ad break in 2000!) <br /><br />I really wonder about GEO sats in terms of the cost of transponder time. If satellite time costs where lower, would demand really increase--i'm not sure. <br /><br />The big thing I would propose for a commersial venture would be a something have to do with low cost/portable SNG technology. Iraq proved the value of those 128kbps satellite phones, of course the live video sucked! <br /><br />If they could get something the size of a briefcase that could get 19.2mbps (HDTV). News would change in an amazing way!. <br /><br />I also see a little hope in a high-bandwidth store-and-foward LEO service. A person in a remote area could get a large file (5-10gb) to HQ in a few hours. <br /><br />All and all the main problem i see is that the commercial aspects of space currently seem limited very much to communications, and these communication services are mere extensions of ground based methods.
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