On a rotor-blade and a prayer
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Rotary Rocket has developed a spacecraft called Roton which uses a propeller. There are a number of companies like Rotary Rocket which aim to use the commercial satellite launch market as an opportunity, and there has been a trend toward developing reusable, light launch vehicles. The Roton is designed in such a way that incremental testing is possible. The company has to raise funds for what is a gamble both in terms of technology and finance.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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The final frontier
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Bill Gates and Craig McCaw hope to develop a wireless network that uses satellites for personal computer communication. The idea is ambitious as satellites historically do not allow the room that computers would require for communication, and the satellites would work like cellular phone ones.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Picture perfect?
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The latest technological advance in news reporting is the video satellite phone, which is bringing tremendous freedom to journalists covering the US military action against Afghanistan. This technology could severely limit the power of censors.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
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