[http://ff.im/aZy0G] TOP 70 'Power Structure' Company News [11/04/09 http://ff.im/aZy0G]: SMOS, THOR, CIGNAL HD and co. Norway launches new satellite http://www.icenews.is/index... Nov 4, 2009 "...Thor 6, the latest satellite from the Norwegian Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc)...was built by Thales Alenia Space...Thor 6 will be based upon the Thales Alenia Space Spacebus 4000B2 platform..." Ariane 5 delivers the NSS 12 [New Skies Satellites] and THOR 6 television broadcast satellites on Arianespace’s sixth mission of 2009. http://www.satbeams.com/satelli... ; http://www.satbeams.com/satelli... --- Telenor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is currently ranked as the seventh largest carrier in the world, formerly state-operated monopoly, named Telegrafverket. The THOR satellite-series owned by Telenor are using launch vehicles built by Khrunichev Space Center. [see also ""9/11 Aftermath" -The bizarre history of russian "Energia" and "Khrunichev" smacks *european pure*" http://ff.im/ajV8M , where i concluded that THALES Alenia Space somehow is the main sponsor of Khrunichev [aka ILS International Launch Services, Inc.]. - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Then there is SMOS (Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity Spacecraft), http://www.greenmuze.com/blogs... which was successfully launched on a Russian Rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... on 2nd November 2009. It will take 6 months to calibrate the payload called the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) , developed by EADS CASA Espacio. SMOS was furthermore produced by ESA, CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) and Spain’s Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) and built around a THALES Alenia Space Proteus small satellite platform. CDTI is a public organization for technology development in the Kingdom of Spain. - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Spanish MIER Communicaciones is one of the subcontractors of the MIRAS project, since 1986 collaborating with the European Space Agency. (ESA) http://www.mier.es/eng... CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) is the French government space agency. CNES formerly was responsible for the training of French spationauts, but the last of them were transferred to the ESA in June 2001, also a few weeks before 9/11 http://smsc.cnes.fr/COROT... ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... CNES owns 34% shares of Arianespace SA, the world's first commercial space transportation company (*1980). EADS owns 30%. [off-topic speculation: The 9/11 Naudet Brothers were indirectly working for CNES, meta-akronymed on Duane St. "from Nat..d'Ét [udes]" ; ) - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Thales Alenia Space is the company which was born after Thales had bought the participation of Alcatel in the two joint-ventures between Alcatel and italian Finmeccanica, Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio. Another department, Thales Nederland, was formerly known as Fabriek van Signaalapparaten and once occupied by the Nazis, obviously to obtain some significant knowledge- in my speculation, for the first important *module* of Tesla-Directed Energy Weapons. There is also ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture between Raytheon Thales Group of France. It was formed a few weeks before 9/11, in June, 2001. The company was established for the purpose of combining the radar and Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence or C4I systems efforts of the two firms. The name "Thales" was possibly inspired by Thales of Miletus [now Aydin Province, Turkey], historically the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Spacebus is a satellite bus produced at the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center in France. After having been the Satellite Division of Aerospatiale, then Alcatel Space in 1998, then Alcatel Alenia Space in 2005, the CMSC center is now part, since 2007 of Thales Alenia Space and the headquarter of the company. Aérospatiale had produced a number of satellites, including Symphonie, with the German company Messerschmitt [known primarily for its WW II fighter aircraft], which is now part of EADS Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Since the 1980s, 52 Spacebus satellites had been launched. A satellite bus or spacecraft bus is the general model on which multiple-production satellite spacecraft are often based. - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Also in this week, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of global satellite operator SES S.A. announced that it has concluded a new multi-year agreement on Cignal HD, together with MediaScape, Inc. SES wholly owns the market-leading satellite operators SES ASTRA and SES WORLD SKIES, 90% of SES SIRIUS in Europe, and participations in CIEL in Canada and QuetzSat in Mexico. http://www.reuters.com/article... Cignal HD is launched on the NSS-11 Satellite. NSS-11 was originally launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Operator is New Skies Satellites N.V. (SES Global). http://www.satbeams.com/satelli... In 1988, SES launched ASTRA 1A, its first satellite. Rupert Murdoch’s SKY TV, along with German broadcasters Pro7, Sat. 1, and RTL were among ASTRA’s first major customers. In April 2001, SES completed the acquisition of GE AMERICOM [formerly owned by owned by General Electric]. http://www.spaceandtech.com/digest... In Europe, SES ASTRA runs a government services unit called NDSatCom, which just received this weekend a 'leadership' award http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin.... - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Mediascape belongs to MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund. [of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company]. In 1998, MediaQuest Holdings acquired NBC (Nation Broadcasting Corporation). President and Chief Executive Officer of PLDT is Ray C Espinosa. http://people.forbes.com/profile... --- This week also CASBAA [Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia], with members like SES and EADS, celebrates a huge convention at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong, with possibly will create more impact on international satellite space business. Among the topics also "Chinese online gaming market" , "India's Mass Market", "Next Consumer Experience with IPTV, VOD, DVR, HULU", and "China's digital TV revolution" http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS... --- +++ [see also 9/11 "EuroSpace Outside Job" http://tinyurl.com/eurospa... ; Profiteers from 9/11 : Private Space-Flight http://ff.im/437jY and http://nicohistory.webnode.com/ ] - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010