Direct Broadcast By Satellite Conference 1988

E.„...„9.8 DIRECT BROADCAST BY SATELLITE CONFERENCE 1988 PANDORA"S BOX TO BE OPENED SOON? Report of a two-day conference on direct broadcasting by satellite, organized by Consert, in association with 7 leading Institutions and Associations involved in electrical engineering, on 16 and 17 June 1988 at the IBA"s Conference Centre, London. Road, London. Most delegates attending the conference agreed that its timing was just right. After a rather silent period of about one year, satellite TV reception is a topical subject again. Recently, the new ECS-4 was taken into operation, and ESA"s Ariane-4 rockets put Intelsat-5 (F13), Panamsat, Meteosat P2 and AMSAT Phase 3C into orbit. The failure late last year of TV-SAT1, the first West-German direct broadcasting satellite, was owing to faults in the satellite itself, not to the Ariane rocket, so that ESA"s launch pro- gramme was not significantly delayed. But there were yet other factors that made the conference an important event. Ast...