US Could Fight Back After Satellite Launch - North Korea

4/17/2012

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US Could Fight Back After Satellite Launch - North Korea
following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch, and warned of retaliatory measures in response...
"The US will be held wholly...
Condemnation was swift, with the US and others calling it a covert test of rocket...
bad behavior," he told a briefing in Washington...
North Korea accused the US of hostility on Tuesday for suspending an agreement to provide food aid...
Tuesday of leading a campaign to deny its right to develop its defence and civilian space programs...
North Korea also faced UN Security Council condemnation after launching a long-range...
North Korean officials called the launch a peaceful bid to send an observation satellite into...
accountable for all the ensuing consequences...
satellite technology that could be used to fire a long-range missile fitted with a nuclear warhead...
Responding to the Security Council's condemnation, North Korea accused the US on...
of a long-range rocket as "unreasonable," and reasserted the nation's right to develop a civilian space program...
North's latest statement could indicate whether its "opaque regime" was readying a nuclear test...
Washington immediately halted a plan brokered in February to provide North Korea with...
North Korea's Foreign Ministry vowed to press ahead with its space...
Toner reminded North Korea of its obligations under the resolutions, and said the Security Council's statement on...
The launch was a failure, with the rocket...
agreement," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency...
much-needed food aid in exchange for a suspension of its nuclear and missile/satellite communications programs...
are dearer for us," the statement said, without specifying what countermeasures North Korea might take...
"We can't preclude...
North Korea's Foreign Ministry also rejected the UN Security Council's condemnation of Friday's launch...
space, timed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung...
Monday made clear it was determined to take further action if North Korea conducts another rocket launch or nuclear test...
Weeks later, North Korea conducted a nuclear test, its second, and revealed it had a...
uranium enrichment program that could give scientists a second source for building atomic weapons...
rocket in 2009, and walked away from six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations in protest...
ambitions, and warned it would no longer adhere to the February agreement with the US...
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Tuesday it was difficult to say whether the...
anything at this point...
North Korea fired a three-stage rocket on Friday over the Yellow Sea in defiance of international warnings...
against what the US and other nations said would be seen as a violation of bans against nuclear and missile activity...
"We have thus become able to take necessary retaliatory measures, free from the...
"In the past there's been a pattern of...
splintering into pieces less than two minutes after take-off...
" "Peace is very dear for us but the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country...
" On Monday, the UN Security Council, including North Korea ally China, condemned the satellite and rocket launch as a violation of resolutions...
prohibiting North Korea from ballistic missile and nuclear activity, and directed its sanctions committee to strengthen penalties against the country...
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Could Hosted Payload Be Better for NBN

2/28/2012

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The heavily funded multi-billion national broadband development project of Australia includes  building national satellite capacity to bring wireless Internet to hard-to-reach areas. 

NBN contracted Space Systems/Loral to develop two $620-million modern satellites to serve all regions in the country. However, some critics argue that NBN should have considered hosted payloads rather than build satellites.

NewSat CEO Adrian Ballintine was upset because NBN never thought of using the company's current and future resources. 
The locally owned satellite communications company has been operating world-class teleports serving the US government and multinational mining and energy firms. Ballintine is also referring to the Jabiru satellite fleet which will be launched soon. 
NBN finds itself under fire when the official 2011 subscription figures were released. It turned out that only few businesses and consumers used NBN networks. Opposition leader Tony Abbot said that it's not wise to invest millions of dollars on fiber optics and satellites if only few consumers will benefit from them. Although the figure was below the original forecast, NBN hopes the number would grow as more resellers join the network.

Ballintine hints at possible use of Jabiru to bring down the cost of NBN's satellite broadband program. The Jabiru 1 satellite is designed to carry multiple payloads.  Deployment of satellite communications services can be made more affordable through hosted payloads. 

NBN CEO Mike Quigley, however, said that satellite construction is necessary for the national satellite communications program. Australia has no sufficient local satellite capacity to provide national coverage. Optus confirmed that it also cannot provide NBN's needed capacity with its existing Ku band satellites. 

Ballintine is also worried about possible competition resulting from the local satellite capacity surplus. He argued that NBN satellites can pump up local satellite communications capacity which could be resold to the commercial sector. He warns that this would result into foreign multinationals tapping on cheap local capacity due to surplus. 
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