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MISTICA: FCC Grants VITA Authority to Operate Satellites

From: Coordinacion Mistica ([email protected])
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 09:43:59 AST

For information, contact: Gary Garriott, VITA, [email protected]

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized VITA to operate two
low orbiting satellites that constitute the VITAsat 'virtual constellation'.

In late November 2000 the FCC granted VITA Special Temporary Authority to
operate the HealthSat-2 satellite and a transponder on the UoSAT-12
satellite, which VITA calls VITAsat-1R and VITAsat-2. Both satellites will
be used in an innovative system to provide communications services to
isolated rural areas of developing countries.
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VITAsat will deliver sustainable, low-cost communications and information
services for humanitarian purposes to remote communities having no access
to line-based or wireless telephone service. VITAsat's targeted information
content and services are designed specifically to meet the needs of small
businesses, local NGOs (non-governmental organizations), educators, health
workers, researchers, administrators, agricultural extensionists, natural
resources managers and other relief and development workers. The system
uses simple, reliable, store-and-forward email messages relayed to the
Internet via the orbiting satellites and gateway stations. Advanced
compression technology and software that allows access to web pages using
email make the vast information resources of the web available via VITAsat
anywhere in the world.
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