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  Communications Satellite Corporation
COMSAT was given responsibility for many activities including the development of a global satellite communications system, the acquisition and maintenance of ground stations around the world, and the development of new satellite technologies.
COMSAT is governed by a Board of Directors elected by the company's shareholders and the President of the United States.
COMSAT has offices worldwide and its headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. emerged amidst a public controversy staged in a series of congressional hearings from 1961-62.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/communication/communication.htm   (723 words)

  
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Specifically, Comsat indicated that additional capacity is needed because forecasted demand is expected to exceed available capacity in 2002 by approximately sixty-eight units at C-band and thirty-four units at Ku-band, with the largest part of the shortfall occurring in the AOR.
Comsat currently estimates the cost to manufacture and deliver the INTELSAT 803 and 804 satellites to be $51.9 million and $53.4 million, respectively.
Comsat notes that changes in the nominal deployment plan were necessitated by: 1) the launch failure of the INTELSAT 708 satellite in February 1996; 2) INTELSAT's decision to replace the INTELSAT 801 satellite that has experienced operational difficulties; and 3) operational anomalies in the INTELSAT 605 satellite that require its removal from service for testing.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/International/Orders/1997/da972038.txt   (1736 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Comsat Angels
Like Joy Division and the Cure, Sheffield's Comsat Angels mastered the art of atmospherics; only nominally involved in rock'n'roll at the outset, they were actually interested in creating haunting mood music.
Switching labels and getting their first American release, the Comsat Angels were forced to use the name C.S. Angels for the US.
Dissatisfied with their musical progress, the Comsats retrenched, switched labels (Island signed them on the advice of singer Robert Palmer) and totally abandoned their four-year synth-pop experiment.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=comsat_angels   (499 words)

  
 COMSAT Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
COMSAT Venezuela ha sido el socio tecnológico de las principales empresas del país y del mundo, para el desarrollo de proyectos globales de telecomunicaciones.
COMSAT Venezuela ha concentrado sus actividades en la integración y gestión de servicios de telecomunicaciones para el mercado corporativo, contando con una infraestructura de comunicaciones que cubre la totalidad del país a través de diferentes medios y tecnologías.
COMSAT se convierte en un elemento integral de Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications (LMGT), una subsidiaria de entera propiedad de la Corporación que comprende los negocios de servicios de telecomunicaciones de Lockheed Martin.
www.comsat.com.ve /01a3.html   (394 words)

  
 COMSAT CORPORATION; AT&T CORPORATION v FCC, No. 00-60044
Comsat asserted for the first time at oral argument that it had an application pending before the FCC to remove these regulations.
Comsat's inability to enter the interstate market undermines its ability to meet the requirement that the challenged action be fairly traceable to the alleged injury.
Comsat argued for the first time at oral argument that its merger with Lockheed Martin bore on its standing argument.
www.fcc.gov /ogc/documents/opinions/2001/00-60044.html   (3724 words)

  
 05-18-1999 COMSAT Response
COMSAT did revise its rate structure for one service ("IBS" or private line) in 1995, but INTELSAT also raised its rates for the service and, in addition, new capabilities were added to the service offering.
The Coalition claims that COMSAT's "monopoly" role is "contrary to the freedom of contract that makes competition possible." But it is the carriers, not COMSAT, that want to interfere with the right to contract by enlisting the government to invalidate contracts that were freely and fairly negotiated.
COMSAT's charges comprise less than 1½% of the cost of an international telephone call, and the carriers have conspicuously refrained from making a commitment to pass through any savings they might realize from direct access.
www.ntia.doc.gov /ntiahome/occ/comments/comsatresponse.htm   (1078 words)

  
 ViaSat, Inc. - Comsat Laboratories
Comsat Laboratories is celebrating three decades of pioneering leadership in satellite communications.
Comsat Lab was established in 1967, with the charter to perform leading-edge research and development in support of the global COMSAT satellite system.
Comsat had a pioneering role in satellite TDMA systems which continues with the design and development of a new, low-cost 120-Mbps TDMA Traffic Terminal for the INTELSAT satellite system.
www.viasat.com /comsat/?PRINT=friendly   (286 words)

  
 Comsat on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
COMSAT Corporation Reports Second Quarter 1999 Financial Results.
COMSAT Corporation Reports Third Quarter 1999 Financial Results.
The Early Bird COMSAT launched the Early Bird in 1965, the first commercial geostationary satellite.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-C1omsat.asp   (177 words)

  
 Site: COMSAT
COMSAT Laboratories was formed in 1967 to assist in the successful development of the INTELSAT (intergovernmental organization) satellite system.
COMSAT is presently engaged in the product development process with an eye to achieving both the technical requirements and a low recurring cost.
The COMSAT Laboratories IOT systems provide fast and complete testing for new communications satellites that have been placed into orbit, making it possible for satellite operators to begin generating revenue and returns on their investments faster and with greater reliability.
www.wtec.org /loyola/satcom2/e_04.htm   (1185 words)

  
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We also noted that COMSAT was already subject to regulatory fees under s 8 for "launch and operation of stations," id. at 895, and that the regulatory immunity granted to Intelsat was "most plausibly" confined to it alone (i.e., it did not extend to COMSAT), id. at 896.
COMSAT contends that the scope of s 9 more generally was not in issue in PanAmSat, and is thus a matter of first impression.
COMSAT next argues that the Commission's decision is unreasonable because the original statutory fee schedule lists the "space station category" with a parenthetical reference that is inapplicable to the licensing of Intelsat satellites: Space Station (per operational station in geosynchronous orbit) (47 C.F.R. Part 25).
pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov /common/opinions/200203/00-1458a.txt   (1883 words)

  
 COMSAT 6-11-1999 Late Filed Comments
COMSAT is not a middleman: Despite the fact that the 1962 Satellite Act was enacted years ago, it remains the law today.
COMSAT believes contracts should be honored: Claims by SUC members that they should be free to walk away from their commitments to COMSAT deserve no credence.
Finally, COMSAT is again at a loss to understand the relevance of 1995 rate revisions to the implementation issues involved with the International Anti-Bribery and Competition Act of 1998.
www.ntia.doc.gov /ntiahome/occ/comments/comsat61199.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Comsat files suit against ex-CEO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Comsat said Crockett joined Herbert Denton, a principal with Providence Capital Inc., and Wyser-Pratte Inc., both of whom have threatened Comsat with a proxy contest.
Comsat said the lawsuit seeks more than $20 million in damages and an injunction against Crockett and the other defendants.
It claims he was motivated by more than $2 million in potential profits from a change of control at Comsat, by promises of help from the other defendants in securing future employment, and by a desire for retribution.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/042597/comsat.htm   (157 words)

  
 comsat angels
comsat angels bir goth grubu deðildi fakat joy divisiondan aþaðý kalmayan dramatizasyon, the cureu andýran atmosferik yapý gibi sebepler yüzünden çoðu zaman goth olarak damgalandýlar.
öte yandan 1986da çýkan chasing shadows ile tekrar az ama öz hayran kitlesinin ve clublarda dans etmek isteyen gothlarýn favorisi oldu comsat angels.
benim için ise joy divisionla tam da ve tam da new orderýn arasýndaki o bir sigara içimlik zamaný deðerlendirmek için en iyi yolun ortasýndaki istasyondur comsat angels.
sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=comsat+angels   (262 words)

  
 Lockheed Martin Completes Acquisition Of Comsat Corporation
Comsat stock ceased to be traded August 3, and all Comsat stockholders received one share of Lockheed Martin Corporation stock for each share of Comsat stock they held.
Following FCC authorization on July 31 for Comsat to assign its licenses and authorizations to a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, thereby facilitating Lockheed's purchase of the satellite company, the second phase, the one-for-one stock exchange of the transaction was completed.
The FCC said it granted the request to allow Lockheed Martin to acquire Comsat based on the, "lack of potential competitive harm and beneficial efficiencies resulting from the transfer." The commission also said it found that Lockheed Martin's purchase of Comsat is in the public interest.
www.spaceandtech.com /digest/sd2000-21/sd2000-21-005.shtml   (905 words)

  
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Specifically, we are asked to set aside the award to COMSAT on the ground that the prescribed determinants for award -- the relevance of an offeror's past experience and the competitiveness of its proposed pricing -- were assessed by the Navy in a manner contrary to the procurement's stated ground rules.
COMSAT's discount terms are more advantageous to the Government because they are not tied to a requirement to have a specific number of leases in place in a specific months.
National security concerns dictate that COMSAT be retained as the incumbent contractor until January 1, 2001 in order to minimize both the additional program costs and the possible technical difficulties that the Navy could expect to encounter during a transition from one contractor to another.
www.uscfc.uscourts.gov /Opinions/Wiese/99/STRATOS.htm   (5817 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The data sent is of the format "username@linenum" where username is the user who is recieving mail, and linenum is the location in the mail spool where the new mail resides.
Therefore, sending 'root@0' to port 512 will tell comsat to alert the user root that there is new mail, and it'll echo up the first couple of lines (7 lines or 560 chars, I believe) to the user's screen if A) they're logged in, and B) have biff set to y.
Also, comsat does *NOT* log what is sent over the comsat connection unless there is invalid data, such as the user doesn't exist.
www.packetstormsecurity.com /Exploit_Code_Archive/in.comstat.txt   (459 words)

  
 Commission Declares COMSAT Non-Dominant in Competitive Markets; Issues NPRM on Transition from Rate of Return ...
In the markets where Comsat has been reclassified as non-dominant, Comsat will be allowed to file tariffs on one day's notice, without economic cost support, in the same form as filed by other non-dominant common carriers, and the tariffs will be presumed lawful.
Finally, the Commission found that Comsat's continued dominance in the provision of switched voice, private line and occasional-use video services to non-competitive markets was an insufficient basis for continuing to require structural separation between Comsat's INTELSAT services and other activities.
The Commission granted Comsat's request for the elimination of structural separation for its INTELSAT services because structural separation is no longer necessary to safeguard Comsat's competitors from Comsat leveraging its monopoly jurisdictional services to gain an advantage in competitive markets in which it is operating.
www.fcc.gov /Bureaus/International/News_Releases/1998/nrin8011.html   (638 words)

  
 chapter 21
Comsat did not evaluate these options; rather, it was considering a novel concept: "cross-strapped" communications transponders that used VHF only for the mobile links and C-band for the ground feeder links.
Comsat elaborated on this plan in a 1967 proposal to the FAA and incorporated in it a number of technical schemes later used in the Marisat and Inmarsat programs.
Comsat, having established its dominance in the development of Intelsat, now appeared to be targeting a new conquest in the field of mobile communications.
history.nasa.gov /SP-4217/ch21.htm   (8623 words)

  
 Cambridge Telcom Report: COMSAT Reports 1999 Earnings; COMSAT Builds Foundation for Growth in Data Communications; ...
COMSAT Corporation (NYSE:CQ) Friday reported a consolidated 1999 net loss of $2.6 million, or $0.05 per fully diluted share, due to the write-off of its investment in ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited ("ICO").
COMSAT International's (CI) revenues in 1999 were $108.6 million, down 4% from $113.3 million in 1998.
COMSAT International posted segment income of $100,000, versus a segment loss of $21.0 million in 1998, due to the sale of its Viatel investment.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BFP/is_2000_Feb_21/ai_59552027   (1463 words)

  
 Comsat Max
Comsat Max started as a joint venture between Comsat International and Max India and later became a part of Lockheed Martin.
Comsat Max provides VSAT based communication infrastructure to a large number of corporate clients in India, supporting applications for clients in the banking, manufacturing, defence and services sectors.
Comsat Max is also an ISP providing Internet based services to various corporations using terrestrial and satellite infrastructure.
www.satellite-links.co.uk /directory/comsatmax.html   (229 words)

  
 Comsat's modern mastery worth preserving - The Washington Times: Entertainment - May 21, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To prevent the demolition of Comsat, the county's historic preservation commission, armed with documentation prepared by two scholars at the University of Maryland, has proposed that the modern building be designated as part of the county's master plan for historic preservation.
In 1965, Comsat's first satellite, Early Bird, was launched from Cape Canaveral to facilitate international telephone and television transmissions.
Comsat deserves landmark protection not only to preserve its masterful architecture, but also to commemorate its contributions to advancing communications throughout the world.
washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20050520-081043-3044r.htm   (1194 words)

  
 The COMSAT Legacy Foundation
The COMSAT Legacy Foundation is a not for profit organization formed for the single purpose of preserving the history and accomplishments of the COMSAT corporation for posterity.
It is funded by contributions from COMSAT veterans and guided by a Board of Directors chaired by Joseph V. Charyk.
The Foundation is arranging for the preservation of COMSAT materials formerly in the possession of Lockheed Martin and others.
www.comsat-legacy.org   (234 words)

  
 Intelsat to Acquire Comsat General
Comsat General is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, which owns 24.1% of Intelsat, Ltd.
Comsat General is a provider of integrated satellite-centric communications services to commercial and government users, including the resale of satellite capacity purchased from Intelsat and other operators.
Comsat General had revenues of approximately US$150 million in 2003.
www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk /2004/16May2004_13.html   (299 words)

  
 Lucent deploys LMDS wireless broadband technology in Peru for COMSAT to offer Internet and multimedia services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
COMSAT Peru is a wholly-owned subsidiary of COMSAT International.
COMSAT Peru (COMSAT Peru, S.A.) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of COMSAT International.
COMSAT Corporation (NYSE: CQ), headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is a global provider of satellite services and digital networking services, products, and technology.
www.lucent.com /press/0599/990526.nsa.html   (535 words)

  
 Lockheed supports draft bill allowing Comsat purchase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lockheed bought 49 percent of satellite company Comsat for $1.2 billion in September and is seeking the remainder to expand its satellite business.
Under the compromise draft, Comsat, a 20 percent owner of Intelsat, would lose the sole authority to sell Intelsat's services in the U.S. Instead, any company can arrange directly with Intelsat to buy access.
Comsat's competitors will be barred from investing in Intelsat, which protects Lockheed's interest in Comsat.
www.broomfieldenterprise.com /business/19block.html   (290 words)

  
 A look at 'Comsat'.
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Connected Earth is the right place to further your study of the subject comsat.
www.connected-earth.com /content/comsat_online.html   (289 words)

  
 Comsat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"COMSAT Laboratories is pioneering research and development of future communications satellite technology and employs simulation as a key engineering tool.
One recent COMSAT project that relied on OPNET simulations was the development and evaluation of on-board fast packet switches.
The rapid emergence of point-to-multipoint services such as video distribution, and the growth demand for video conferencing, distributed data processing, and network management services make the design of on-board multicast fast packet switches imperative.
www.opnet.com /spotlight/comsat.html   (201 words)

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