SkyStream Networks SkyStream Networks is a worldwide networking infrastructure company that empowers service providers and broadcasters to create new revenue streams by delivering branded digital media services like TV-quality Internet video to PCs or TVs over linked broadband and broadcast networks. SkyStream's routers are the intelligent links of converged broadband and broadcast networks at the core of the Internet, joining networks of satellite providers, cable providers and broadcasters with those of traditional Internet bandwidth owners of fiber and ATM networks. Artemis will be lofted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 between June and August 2001, and positioned at 21.5 degrees East over central Africa. Asia Global Crossing expects to begin offering commercial video transmission services March 1, 2001. A new entity, Empresa Brasileira de Lancamentos Especiais, is now being tapped to develop the complex and implement the necessary infrastructure.
Brazil has a well developed space program.
From Kourou, the satellite will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket into a geosynchronous orbit at 110 degrees East longitude. Orbital expects the BSAT-2b satellite to be launched later this year. The patent relates to simultaneous two-way microwave communication. The official inauguration was held in Johannesburg January 24, 2001. The service uses Verestar's Brewster facilities, in Washington State, which provides access to the Intelsat space segment, as well as direct connectivity to the U.S. fiber backbone.