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by Robert Wall at
12/12/2008 8:37 AM CST
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In this week's Check 6 podcast, Aviation Week Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler, Senior Editor-Technology Graham Warwick, and International Editor Robert Wall talk about: IATA’s forecast for the airline industry
TSAT, the Transformational Satellite program
Airbus’s 787 report
We close out with three beyond-the-headlines stories in our Missed Approach segments on: plans for Air Force One, the Airbus “Fly Your Ideas” program, and NASA’s retiring F-15 demonstrator.
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I will be interested to see what you lot have to say about TSAT! I'm expecting mad propz for Lockheed-Martin's model-making skillz.
People saying that TSAT isn't needed are clinging to the past. Back in the Eighties, when we were all going to die in an atomic war, low-bandwidth satcom was okay because all you needed to do was send the launch command. The modern military is expected to do more than dig foxholes and wait to be nuked; to accomplish this mission, then need to be able to talk to the rest of the force. This needs bandwidth, and you aren't going to get that with MUOS backpack radios or WGS station-to-station links.
For God's sake, people are using Iridium phones to call in airstrikes!