To be successful in today’s satellite communications marketplace, you know that business savvy counts as much as technical expertise. This informative new book gives you the management insight and expertise needed to successfully operate satellite systems as business ventures. Based on the author’s more than 25 years experience in developing and managing satellite systems, the book explains how to master the complexities of deploying satellite systems while reaching overall business objectives.

This unique resource combines the essentials of strategy development and project management in one integrated approach. You find in-depth coverage of each building block of this approach from the perspective of business and industry managers. By showing you how to determine customer needs, the book enables you to formulate the goals that define success. It also explains the critical role of team management and emphasizes the importance of team communications. Detailed coverage of funding strategies, techniques for developing optimum architectures and infrastructures, and methods for measuring overall performance, all combine to make this book an excellent guide to business success in satellite system ventures. The book closes with a comprehensive case study of digital satellite radio systems and a prognosis for the future of satellite systems.

D. K. Sachdev has more than 40 years experience in the satellite and telecommunication organizations and industries in the United States and India. He is the president of SpaceTel Consultancy LLC, Vienna, Virginia, which provides management and engineer support for telecommunications, and broadcast companies. He is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where he teaches graduate classes on systems engineering for telecommunications and on project management. In 2003 he received the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation’s Innovation award for his "creative and innovative prowess in the field of satellite communications for many years and culminating in the engineering implementation of the world’s first operating direct broadcast radio satellite system." A Senior Member of the IEEE, he is a graduate of Allahabad University and holds a post-graduate diploma in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.