GE AMERICAN Communications has filed an application to the US Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate a nine-satellite, worldwide, high-power, Kaband satellite system, called GE Star. The company aims to provide a broad array of high-data-rate digital-communications services.
Other US companies which are proposing competing geostationary-orbiting systems consist of Lockheed Martin, with nine satellites planned; AT&T, which is fielding 12 craft; Space Systems Loral, with its CyberStar satellite; and Hughes, which is offering its 12-satellite Spacelink (Flight International, 18-24 October).
Source: Flight International