Lloyd's satellite constellations Introduction | Background | Overview | General | References | Media | Comments?

One of the best sources of information about satellite networking... more useful than most of the professional sites. - Network Magazine, 2002.		The mecca of satellite constellation information. You want to know about LEOs, you've got it. - Upside, 1996.

Media coverage

• Book references
• Selected media coverage
• Courses
• Interviews and awards
• Reader feedback

A truly unbelievable accomplishment!

- E-Management @ Work: The Internet and the Office Productivity Revolution, Ballé and Beauvallet, 2002.

Book references

Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Web resources, ISBN 0-130-66102-3, Prentice Hall. I have read and recommend the second edition to understand layering.

Atlas of Cyberspace by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin

p22-23, ISBN 0-201-74575-5, Addison-Wesley.

Space Mission Analysis and Design, Wiley Larson

Chapter 7 - Orbit and constellation design. ISBN 1-881-88310-8.

Computer Concepts, Oja and Parsons, fourth edition

Chapter 11, satellites.

Internet Solutions for Project Managers by Amit Maitra

Wiley, October 1999, ISBN 0-471-33027-2.

The Satellite Report 1999 by Armand Musey, William Kidd and Patrick Fuhrmann

C. E. Unterberg, Towbin

Information Systems and the Internet: A Problem-Solving Approach, Laudon and Laudon

Chapter 7, Telecommunications and Networks, Fourth Edition, ISBN 0-03-024797-7, Dryden Press.

Wireless Communications and Networks, by William Stallings

Chapter 9: Satellite comunications, ISBN 0-130-40864-6.

Business Data Communications, 5th edition, by William Stallings

Chapter 13, Wireless Networks, ISBN 0-131-44257-0.

Business Data Communications: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, by Shelly, Cashman and Serwatka

Chapter 3, Internet Projects, ISBN 0-7895-5958-7.

Communication Technology Update, August E. Grant, editor

updates since fifth edition, 7th edition - ISBN 0-2408-0407-4, Focal Press.

Information Technology: Concepts and Issues, Laudon, Traver and Laudon

updates since second edition, ISBN 0-7600-4917-3, Course Technology.

Computer Networking: a top-down approach featuring the Internet, by Keith W. Ross and Jim Kurose

Former chapter on Access Networks and Physical Media (mirror copy, mirror copy). Was in progress as Computer Networking and Internet Protocols. ISBN 0-201-47711-4.

Selected media coverage

Emerging Technology: Broadband from Outer Space by Andy Dornan

Network Magazine (7 January 2002)

De wederopstanding van Iridium by David de Vaal

Tiscali Magazine (21 December 2000, also in French, English: The resurrection of Iridium)

Iridium: If You Build It They Won't Necessarily Come by Keith 'NASA Watch' Cowing

SpaceRef (29 August 2000)

Anything New up there? by Mark Sedenquist

The Road Wirer (14 August 2000)

Iridium: A Technology Ahead of Its Time? by Al Teich

Teich's Tech Tidbit of the Week (8 May 2000)

Nur ein tollkühner Investor kann Iridium jetzt noch vor dem endgültigen Aus retten von Ulrike Sosalla

Financial Times Deutschland (17 March 2000)

Impressive increase in the commercial satellite sector (in Greek)

in.gr (10 December 1999)

Spazio al satellite: dalle telecomunicazioni alla multimedialità interattiva

Carving up the pie in the sky

Wired 7.06 (June 1999) errors noted

Satellite-based networking: set for takeoff? by Jonathan Angel

Network Magazine (7 June 1999)

Edge your way through orbital debris!/Baan je een weg door ruim te-afval! by Noortje Marres and Alex Wilkie

Mediamatic magazine 9#4 (May 1999)

The Internet, Satellites and Human Rights and Internet unwired by Michiel Hegener

On the Internet, the magazine of the Internet Society (Mar-Apr 1999, Sep-Oct 1997)

Iridium pone el mundo "en tus manos" by Paco Rego

diario del navegante, el mundo (Miércoles, 21 octubre de 1998)

Satellite data communications: the space race is on by Rawn Shah

Unix Insider formerly SunWorld Online (June 1998)

Wireless Net Thinks, Acts Locally by Kristi Coale

Wired News (8 May 1998)

Iridium Flare (NASA) picture by Chris Dorreman

Astronomy Picture of the Day (2 April 1998, available in Russian)

Le Net dans les étoiles by Frédéric Filloux

Libération - Multimédia (27 février 1998)

Trouble in the skies? by Charles Bruno

Network World (19 January 1998)

Cyberspace: Lloyd's satellite constellations

SpaceViews, SEDS (15 December 1997)

Global Satellites: A Great Hobby (Just Ask Lloyd) by Sue O'Keefe

Telecommunications Magazine (December 1997)

Globalna wioska telekomunikacyjna? by Marcin Olejniczak

Archiwum (Issue 6, jesieñ 1997)

Internet in the sky by Keith Dawson

Tasty Bits from the Technology Front (8 September 1997)

Things are looking up and Periodic Firestorms in the Forecast, by Jeffrey R. Harrow

The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing (22 September 1997, 18 August 1997, 16 June 1997)

Countdown to FedSat

Space Industry News (June 1997)

Hard News, by Danny O'Brien et al.

Need to Know (20 June 1997)

LEO en MEO Commsat Systemen

NVR Webwijzer, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Ruimtevaart (June 1997)

Trends in mobile satellite technology, by Gary Comparetto and Rafols Ramirez

IEEE Computer (February 1997)

Mapping out the satellite industry, by Tish 'Daily Tish' Williams

Upside (November 1996)

Courses

• CS216: Satellite networks, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
• ECE 435: Digital communications, University of Arizona, USA.
• TLEN5330: Data communications I, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
• CIS 367.001 Data Communications, University of Southern Indiana, USA.
• TCOM 500: Modern telecommunications, George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
• IS 4502 Telecommunications Networks and other courses, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA.
• AOSS 335: Space Science and Satellite Applications, University of Michigan, USA.
• PIM 813 Enterprise Information Systems, Michigan State University, USA.
• Management 200e Data Communications, West Virginia University, USA.
• Info 3229 - Business Data Communications, Belk College of Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
• ECpE 4644 Satellite Communications, Virginia Tech, USA.
• Business and the internet: strategy, law and policy, Harvard Law School, Massachussetts, USA.
• Law 3670/PolSci 329: Public International Law, Babson College, Massachusetts, USA.
• MBA 650 Information and Telecommunication Technologies, McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco, California, USA.
• IST 110: Introduction to Information Sciences and Technology, IST Solutions Institute, Penn State, USA.
• INSYS 5343 Business Data Communications, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
• PBAF 599E: Internet in the Developing World, Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington, USA.

I found its content so fascinating, and the links from it so interesting, that I sat, reading, spellbound, until my eyes started to water. - Techsightings

Interviews and awards

Forschung aktuell Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, interview for DeutschlandRadio

broadcast Sunday 20 September 1998 (recorded 25 August 1998)

Global Satellites: A Great Hobby (Just Ask Lloyd) by Sue O'Keefe

Telecommunications Magazine (December 1997)

Hold the Phone, television interview for Beyond 2000

as shown on the Discovery Channel (recorded 1 March 1997)

1997 DTI Young Information Society Creative Awards winner,
1997 SSPI Public Service Satellite Consortium (PSSC) Legacy Fund scholarship winner,
and as featured in a geography of cyberspace.

Reader feedback

Your constellation page is one of the best things I've ever seen on the web.

- Andy Kellett (akellett@csn.net), EOSS contributor.

a personal soap box for a whacko at UOS

- Jim Kehler (pacrimgolf@kuentos.guam.net), in rec.radio.amateur.misc

Thank you for your fantastic contribution to mankind!
I'm doing a research paper and have found your research fabulous!

- R. Mahoney, somewhere inside Boeing

a gold mine [..] Fun and easily navigable.

- Jay Morrow, University of North Texas.

my life shouldn't be like this.

Lloyd Wood (L.Wood@society.surrey.ac.uk)
this page last updated 3 September 2003