Satellites- A Global Industry Outlook

The global outlook series on the Satellites Industry provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. Illustrated with 22 fact-rich market data tables, the report offers a rudimentary overview of the industry and highlights latest trends and demand drivers. Regional markets briefly abstracted and covered include North America (with particular focus on United States), Europe (the United Kingdom and Russia) Asia-Pacific (China, and India) Latin America and Middle East/Africa. The report offers a compilation of recent mergers, acquisitions, and strategic corporate developments. Also included is an indexed, easy-to-refer, fact-finder directory listing the addresses, and contact details of 206 companies worldwide.?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SATELLITES									GOS-191  A GLOBAL OUTLOOK, JANUARY 2012                                                 CONTENTS     1. INDUSTRY OVERVIEW                                                     1       Space Technologies: Global Landscape                                 1       Global Satellite Industry - A Rudimentary  Overview                  1        Global Satellite Services Market: Infrastructure  and         Consumer Services in Voice,  Video and Data Segments               2       Market Opportunities                                                 2       Key Challenges                                                       3       Barriers to Entry                                                    3        High Capex Requirements                                             3        Spectrum Availability                                               3        Existing Players Dominate the Market                                3        Receiving Dish Position                                             3        Stringent Regulations                                               4        Competing Technologies                                              4        Bargaining Power of Buyers                                          4       Impact of Recession in Retrospect                                    4       Outlook                                                              5        Table 1: World Recent Past, Current and  Future Analysis for        Satellite Products & Services by Geographic Segments - North        America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (Including Japan), Middle        East/Africa and Latin America Markets Independently Analyzed        by Annual Revenue (in US$ Billion) for Years 2010 through        2015                                                                6         Table 2: World 5-Year Perspective for Satellite Products and        Services by Geographic Segment - Percentage Breakdown of        Annual Revenue for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific        (Including Japan), Middle East/Africa and Latin America        Markets for the Years 2011 & 2015                                   7         Table 3: Global Satellite Industry (2011): Percentage Share        Breakdown of Revenue  by Segment                                    7       Emerging Markets - Hotspots for Growth  for Satellite Industry       7       Satellite Services Sector to Sustain Growth  Momentum                8        Table 4: Global Satellite Services Market (2011): Percentage        Share Breakdown of Revenue by Segment                               8        Consumer Satellite Services Market -  A Review of Key Segments      8         Table 5: Global Consumer Satellite Services Market (2011):         Percentage Share Breakdown  of Revenue by Segment                  9         Satellite Television Services                                      9          Table 6: Global Pay TV Market (2010 & 2016): Percentage          Share Breakdown of Revenue by Platform                            10          Digital TV Entertainment -  A Key Growth Driver                   10          Subscriptions on Wane in Developed  Markets                       10          Platforms Roll Out Value-Added Services  to Sustain and           Attract Subscribers                                              11          Platforms Consider Vertical integration  and Consolidation           to Attain Profitability                                          11          Satellite Video Transmission Services to  Witness           Exponential Increase in Value                                    11         Satellite Broadband - Bridging the Digital  Divide                 12          Satellite Broadband Services Market Witnessing Growth             12          Outlook                                                           13          Rural Broadband - Gaining Momentum                                13          Factors Driving Demand for Broadband  Satellite Systems           14          Small Businesses - Potential Market  Segment for Satellite           Broadband  Services                                              14          Satellite Based IPTV- An Emerging Niche                           14           Table 7: Global Market for IPTV  (2011): Percentage           Breakdown of Number of Subscribers for US, Canada, Europe,           Asia-Pacific and Rest of World                                   15          Opportunities in Ka-Band Services                                 15          Broadband Satellite Multicasting Industry                         16        Fixed Satellite Services - Maintaining  Demand Growth               16         Table 8: Global Fixed Satellite Services Market (2011):         Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Application                   17          Table 9: Global Fixed Satellite Services Market (2011):         Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Region                        17          Table 10: Global Fixed Satellite Services  Market (2011):         Percentage Share Breakdown of Revenue by Segment                   17         Satellite Transponders Market to Register  Significant Growth      18          Transponders in Commercial Satellite  Services Market             18          Growing Demand for Bigger Satellites to  Push Transponders           Market                                                           19          Transponder Demand Leading to  Mushrooming of Satellite           Operators                                                        19          Satellite Cellular Backhaul Propels Market                        19          Booming Global Market for Satellite  Transponders                 19           Table 11: Global Satellite Transponder Market (2011):           Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Region - North           America, Europe, Asia, Middle East/Africa & Latin America        20            Table 12: Global Satellite Market (2007-2015): Supply of           Satellite Transponders Among C-Band, Ku-Band, and Ka-Band-            Annual Demand in Number of 36 MHz Transponder           Equivalents                                                      20            Table 13: Global Satellite Market (2007-2015): Annual           Demand and Supply of Satellite Transponders in Number of           36 MHz Transponder Equivalents                                   21            Table 14: Global Satellite Transponder Market (2011):           Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Application -           Broadcast, Trunking, Reserve, and Networking                     21          Satellite Capacity Leasing Market to  Expand Further              21         Private Networks Lead Data Market                                  22        Mobile Satellite Services - Outlook                                 22         Manufacturers of MSS Equipment to  Register Growth                 23         Mobile Voice Represents a Small Segment                            23         Mobile Data Gains Traction                                         23          Table 15: Global Mobile Satellite Services Market          (2008-2016): Broadband Terminals for Applications Over 256          Kbps                                                              24         Growing Scope of Global Maritime Industry  Satellite Services      24       Satellite Manufacturing - A Review                                   25       Role of International Telecommunication  Union                       25       Other Noteworthy Trends, Growth Drivers &  Issues                    26        Military Satellite Market to Witness Ample Growth across the         Globe                                                              26        Commercial Services Drives Satellites  Sector                       26         Commercial Satellite Market Driven by  Consumer Satellite          Services                                                          27        Dual-Use Platform to Provide New  Opportunities for Satellite         Manufacturing Industry                                             27        Small Satellites Too Attract Market  Opportunities                  27        Backup Satellites and Transponders Offer  Viable Alternative         Over Standard Insurance                                            27        Satellite Telephony: A Declining Market                             28    2. PRODUCT OVERVIEW                                                      29       Satellites - An Introduction                                         29        Background and Development                                          29        Satellite Services for Non-Military Uses                            30       Payload                                                              30       Transponders                                                         30       Orbits                                                               31        Common Types of Orbits                                              31         Geostationary Orbit (GEO)                                          31         Low Earth Orbit (LEO)                                              32         Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)                                           32       Satellites Footprint                                                33       Burn                                                                 33       Interior of a Satellite                                              33        Propulsion Subsystem                                                33        Power Subsystem                                                     33        Communications Subsystem                                            33        Structures Subsystem                                                33        Thermal Control Subsystem                                           34        Attitude Control Subsystem                                          34        Telemetry and Command Subsystem                                     34       Launch of a Satellite                                                34       Importance of EMS for Satellite  Transmissions                       35       Frequency Range and Suitable Application  Areas of Different        Bands                                                               35       Satellite Applications                                               36       An Overview of Applications/Services                                 36        Satellite Broadcasts                                                37         Strengths                                                          37         Weaknesses                                                         37        Satellite Broadband Applications                                    37         Satellite-Based Internet Protocol  Television (IPTV)               37         Internet Service Providers                                         38        Global Positioning System                                           38         Application Areas                                                  38        Satellite Telecommunications                                        39       Space-Based Earth Observation Systems                                40       Major Remote Sensing Instruments and  Satellites                     41        Satellite Navigation System                                         41        The Galileo System                                                  42         EGNOS - The Precursor for Galileo                                  42        New Transponder Accessing Method                                    42       Types of Satellites                                                  42       Orbit Classifications                                                43        Classification Based on Synchronicity                               43        Classification Based on Centricity                                  44        Classification Based on Eccentricity                                44        Classification Based on Inclination                                 45        Classification Based on Altitude                                    45        Special Orbits                                                      45        False Orbits                                                        45       Satellite Formations                                                 46        Formation Types                                                     46       Countries with Satellite Launch Capabilities                         46       Threat to Satellites                                                 47       Jamming of Satellites                                                47       Other Applications of Satellites                                     47    3. PRODUCT LAUNCHES                                                      48    4. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS                                              82    5. STRATEGIC CORPORATE  DEVELOPMENTS                                     99    A REGIONAL MARKAT PERSPECTIVE                                             125    1. NORTH AMERICA                                                         125       Challenges in Fixed Satellite Services Market  in North America      125       C-Band Continues to Retain its Charm Despite  Slowdown               125       Future Relies on Ka-Band                                             125        Table 16: North American Market for Satellite Transponders        (2011): Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Area of        Application - Broadcast, Trunking, Networking and Reserve           126       North America at the Forefront of HDTV  Revolution                   126    1a. THE UNITED STATES                                                    127       Satellite Market Overview                                            127       US Satellite Industry Survives Recession  Scare                      127       Market Trends                                                        127        Satellite Broadband Market to Explode                               127         SOHO/Enterprise Markets Promise Lucrative  Opportunities for          Satellite Broadband  Services                                     127         iPTV in Rural Areas - A Secured Niche  Market for Satellite          Operators                                                         128         Stimulus Financing for Satellite  Broadband                        128         Terrestrial Technologies - No Competition  to Satellite          Broadband Market                                                  128        Bigger Satellites - Calling the Shots                               129        Radar Market: Returning to Growth                                   130        Growing Demand for HDTV                                             130        Mobile Satellite Market to Grow Rapidly                             130       Military Investment in New Space Programs                            130       Risk Elements for US Commercial Remote  Sensing Satellite        Companies                                                           131    2. EUROPE                                                                132       Escalating Mobile Satellite TV Market                                132        Table 17: Mobile Satellite TV Market (2011): Percentage        Breakdown of Number of Customers by Region-France, Germany        Italy, UK, Spain and Rest of Europe                                 133       C-Band and Ku-Band Application in Telephony Declining                133        Table 18: Satellite Transponders Market in Europe (2011):        Percentage Breakdown of Demand by Area of Application-        Broadcast, Trunking, Reserve, and Networking                        133    2a. THE UNITED KINGDOM                                                   134       Space Industry                                                       134       UK's Satellite Broadband Services Market                             134        Satellite Broadband                                                 135        Satellite Broadband Offerings                                       135        Ka-band Capacity Demand in UK                                       136        Export Markets                                                      137    2b. RUSSIA                                                               138       Russia Witnesses Increase in Satellite  TV Subscribers               138    3. ASIA-PACIFIC                                                          139       Asian Satellite Industry Performs Well Despite  the Recent        Economic Slump                                                      139       Challenges                                                           140       Mixed Opportunity for Satellite Mobile TV                            140       Communication Satellites Over Asia-Pacific                           141       Communication Satellites Over Asia-Pacific  by Frequency             141       Digital Divide Mars Asia-Pacific Market                              143       Transponders: Demand and Supply                                      143        Table 19: Asia-Pacific Satellite Transponders Market (2011):        Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Area of Application -        Broadcast, Trunking, Reserve, and Networking                        144       Overcapacity: A Major Issue                                          144       Government: A Major Player                                           144       Satellite Broadband Market Facing Hurdles  in Japan and South        Korea                                                               145    3a. CHINA                                                                146       Satellite Market Set to Grow                                         146       Emerging as a Major Satellite Launch Market                          146       Satellite Set-Top Box Market                                         146    3b. INDIA                                                                147       Indian Satellite Market to Witness Meteoric  Growth                  147       Satellite Capacity Set to Grow                                       147       Transponder Capacity Additions on Cards                              147       Foray into Satellite Launch Market                                   148       Expanding Satellite Market                                           148       Factors Driving Growth of Direct-To-Home  Industry                   148        Table 20: Indian DTH Market (2011):  Percentage  Market Share        Breakdown by Leading Players                                        150    4. LATIN AMERICA                                                         151       Satellite Service Sector Witnessing Rapid  Growth                    151       Favorable Conditions for Satellite Services                          151       Outlook for Transponders                                             152        Table 21: Satellite Transponders Market in Latin America        (2011): Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Area of        Application - Broadcast, Trunking, Reserve, and Networking          152       Competitive Overview                                                 152       Satellite Services Revenues                                          153    5. THE MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA                                                154       Overview of Commercial Satellite  Transponder Market                 154        Table 22: Middle East and Africa Satellite Transponders        Market in (2011): Percentage Market Share Breakdown by Area        of Application - Broadcast, Trunking, Reserve, and Networking       154    GLOBAL DIRECTORY

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Powering Up...With A Microbial Fuel Cell

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You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. What if you could light up a streetlight just by plugging it into the ground, using bacteria in the soil to power it? Sounds a little crazy or sci-fi. But my next guest has actually done something very similar, building a fuel cell that uses bacteria to generate electricity. And it pumped out enough juice to power a small LED bulb. This isn't some new breed of genetically engineered bugs from the lab. You can find these bacteria just by scooping up some river mud as our researchers did.

So why not harness the millions of trillions of bacteria out there to help out with our electricity needs? And how close are we to scaling this up from microbial fuel cells to microbial power plants? Grant Burgess is a professor of marine biotechnology at Newcastle University in the U.K. He is author of a study out this week in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. He joins us by phone. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY, Dr. Burgess.

DR. GRANT BURGESS: Good afternoon, Ira. It's a pleasure to be on your show.

FLATOW: Well, thank you very much. How do you get electricity from bacteria? How simple is it?

BURGESS: Well, it's an amazing phenomenon, actually. And as you said earlier, it's also a well-known phenomenon. In fact, Professor Michael Potter first described this as far back as 1911. And he showed that bacteria could be used to generate electrons and that those electrons could be captured onto an electrode to create an electrical current.

FLATOW: We had a researcher a couple of years ago - well, actually, in 2010, from the U.S. Naval Research Lab, and she had found mud in the Potomac that you stuck probes into it and it generated electricity.

BURGESS: That's right, that's right. I mean, in a sense it's similar to the way you and I would obtain electricity from eating, you know, eating a chocolate bar. You know, the chemical energy is converted by the metabolism in your cell to a load of electrons, and you know, in your own body. Those electrons are converted into the energy-generating molecule ATP, whereas in bacteria we can actually harvest those electrons and use them ourselves. You know, we can capture them and use them as a source of electricity. So it's really quite exciting.

FLATOW: What's also quite interesting about your research is the name of the bacterium that you...

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Yes, indeed. I'll just read them out, actually, because the names are lovely: Bacillus stratosphericus and Bacillus altitudinis. And amazingly, although we found these bacteria, as you said, in estuarine mud in the northeast of England, they were actually first observed and first isolated approximately 25 miles up in the upper stratosphere of the Earth.

Wow. So they were floating around up there and settling down or vice versa? Coming up from the mud or...

BURGESS: It's a very good question, actually. I think I would have to suggest that they probably came from the Earth and went upwards. The interesting thing about that height is you're also about 10 to 12 miles above the ozone layer. And, of course, that means that above that you've got a lot of UV radiation. And these bacteria seem to be very resistant to ultraviolet, which is another interesting property of them. But our work shows that they, you know, they may well be more widespread than was previously thought.

FLATOW: And that raises all kinds of questions. Let me ask you this one. So your samples came from the mud, and they came from a marine environment? Is that correct?

BURGESS: That's right. We - I mean, I've been interested in marine bacteria for many years because of their great diversity. And what we did - in fact, what a student of mine did is he took a sample from estuary mud from the River Wear, which is a river in the northeast of England. And we brought that mud back to the lab and set up a microbial fuel cell with my colleague Professor Keith Scott, who is an expert on microbial fuel cells. And it was kind of interesting.

Initially, it just stayed in the lab and didn't do anything for a couple of weeks. And then very slowly it started to generate electricity as the bacteria adapted to that environment. So it was quite exciting to see the current starting to increase, you know, after a couple of weeks of it just looking like it wasn't going to work. So it's very exciting.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. And you made enough electricity that you could light up a little light emitting diode bulb with it.

BURGESS: That's right. I mean obviously we have experimental fuel cells like this. I mean the electrode is just a couple of inches by a couple of inches. So these are very small experimental electrodes, and in general they produce relatively small amounts of electricity. And to put it into some kind of context that your listeners might understand, it's probably about 100th the electrical power of, say, a car battery, something like that.

FLATOW: That's still pretty good. One hundred...

BURGESS: Absolutely.

FLATOW: Yeah.

BURGESS: You know, one of the ways to improve that is to actually have a lot of these systems in series, and you can actually increase the power that you would be able to gain from them.

FLATOW: Is this bacterium pretty good at what it does? Is it better than others of its kind of making electricity?

BURGESS: Sure. I mean, one of the interesting things about our study is that as a microbiologist, I'm very interested in bacterial slime, if you will. And we were trying to analyze exactly which species of bacteria where in this - growing on this electrode, there's a layer of slime actually producing the electricity. So what we did is we separated out about 70 different species of bacteria, and then we individually checked each one to see how much electricity it was making. And, you know, the winner by far and away, with about 10 times the electrical - electricity producing power of all the others was this bacillus stratosferica. So there's something very unusual about it that we're currently studying.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. Do you imagine there might be others that are unfound, yet to be discovered?

BURGESS: Absolutely. I mean, I think, if there's one thing that's clear, it's that there are a vast number of bacteria, which we, you know, we don't even know how to grow them in the laboratory. And yet, genetic tools tell us that they are there, so you can, kind of, tantalizingly see fingerprints of them using molecular techniques. But we don't how to grow them in the lab and therefore we can't study them very well. And so another exciting aspect of our study is that we actually grew these in the lab and, you know, we were able to study them subsequently.

FLATOW: So you were lucky because, as you say, what - 90 percent of bacteria in the world can't be grown in the laboratory.

BURGESS: That's right. That's right. And it's very frustrating if you're a microbiologist.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: But, you know, as a microbiologist, aren't you sort of tempted to tinker with the inner-workings of the bacterium and say, I can genetically engineer a better one now that I have this one?

BURGESS: Well, I mean, I think, that - I mean, certainly was of that opinion, you know, a long time ago, in the 1980s and early 1990s. But the more you look at the bacteria that are out there in nature, the more you realize that in fact they're pretty good at what they do. I mean, they've been around on the planet Earth for about 300 and a bit billion years. And so they have been, you know, they've been around and they've been able to perfect these processes really quite well. And so it's very difficult to, you know, actually try to engineer improvements with any great accuracy. So I'm a great believe in searching for naturally occuring bacteria that already do what you want them to do, if you see what I mean.

FLATOW: Yeah. A couple of questions for you. When might we see some practical application come out of the bacteria? Can you...

BURGESS: Well, I mean, it was interesting, in your introductory remarks you said it might be possible one day to kind of put a stick in the ground and it would extract electricity from the soil. You know, a couple of scientists a few years ago have already done that, amazingly, by putting a fuel cell into some marine sediment to the bottom of the sea. And that can actually generate electricity already from the sediment at the bottom of the sea. And so scientists are looking to see how they can actually provide an electricity source for things like sensing apparatus that would measure temperature and current and so on, and beam that data back up to the surface for, you know, ocean scientists to collect.

FLATOW: There's an old song in America. "There's a hole..."

BURGESS: (Unintelligible) applications are not far way at all.

FLATOW: "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea." And now, we know what goes into that, a little marine sensing device. And you have been studying marine bacteria for decades, right? And you think that's a really fertile place to find interesting, new creatures.

BURGESS: It is. I mean, as you said, I mean, I've been studying about marine bacteria now for about 25 years or so. And, you know, they never seize to amaze me. I think there are some really amazing examples of bacteria out there. And I suppose one thing that fascinates me is how complicated they are. You know, we found a few years go that bacteria actually have a sense of smell.

FLATOW: Really?

BURGESS: So that, you know, they can actually detect each other by monitoring molecules that are in the air. And we found that bacteria actually detect each other by monitoring ammonia, and they change their behavior as a result. So we were amazed by that, and it just shows you the complexity of the ways in which bacteria can communicate with each other.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. And you study something called snot worms, correct?

BURGESS: Well, that's - they are incredible. Yeah. I mean, to give it a full name, it's actually a bone-eating snot worm. And these are very, very unusual marine creatures that live at the depths of the sea. And - I mean, if you ever thought about what happens when something large like a whale dies - so, you know, a whale, when it dies, will sink to the bottom of the ocean and there will be a whole load of fat and oil for marine creatures to eat. And, you know, once the meat and the blubber, if you like, have all been eaten by other creatures, you're left with huge whale bones.

And along come these snot worms. And what they do is they actually colonize the bones, and they are effectively a worm with a whole big root structure, which burrows into the bone and actually dissolves the bone and extracts nutrients from the bone and takes these nutrients up inside the worm as a food source. And one of the most bizarre things about snot worms is that they have no mouth and no anus, and so they actually absorb these nutrients directly through these root structures.

And if you look a little bit further at the root structure, you find that the root structures are actually packed full of symbiotic bacteria that exude enzymes and so on, to be able to break down these fats and oils and in fact the bone itself and pass the nutrients back to the worm. You know, it's almost like a science-fiction story, but this is real.

FLATOW: Well, you've given us something to think about today, Dr. Burgess. Thank you very much. Fascinating.

BURGESS: Thank you.

FLATOW: And good luck with your work with the bacteria. Grant Burgess is professor of marine biotechnology at Newcastle University in the U.K., author of a study, Environmental Science & Technology. I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR.

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MIdway Arcade brings Joust, Defender, Spy Hunter to iOS without the associated coin-loss

Warner Bros. has busted out an iOS flavored compilation of Midway's classic arcade games. For 99 cents you can re-live the experience of pumping coin after coin in the cabinets of your childhood. The app comes with emulated versions of Spy Hunter, Rampage, Joust, Root Beer Tapper, Defender, Arch Rivals, Air Hockey, Arcade Basketball, Pool and Roll Ball. Once you've finished reacquiring your square-eyes from all that gaming action, two expansions are available as an in-app purchase. One includes NARC, Total Carnage and APB, whilst the other packs both Gauntlet games and Wizard of War. All the company needs to do now is make sure it works in perfect harmony with the iCade and we may never leave the house again.

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Restoring Plaster Frieze - Painting - DIY Chatroom - DIY Home ...

I've stripped the old layers of paint from an intricate plaster frieze on the wall over the mantle in my 1886 Italianate Victorian home.

A couple chunks came off the sculpture; there seems to be a fabric grid (perhaps horsehair?) under the plaster. How can I reattach those chunks?

Also, I need to fill in some chips. Should I use joint compound? In general, should I sand everything smooth, or smooth it with compound or some other substance. I have no experience working with plaster.

Then I want to paint it without hiding the details that have emerged from under all that paint. Should I prime it first? Is there a special kind of paint and/or primer I should use?

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3 teens stranded in blizzard burn snowmobile

By msnbc.com staff

MOFFAT COUNTY, Colo. -- ?Three teenage boys?stuck for a night in Routt National Forest in Moffat County during a snowmobiling trip?survived through a blizzard and temperatures in the teens by?burning what they could --?including a snowmobile -- to stay warm, NBC station KUSA of Denver?reports.

Justin McAlexander, 17,?Jessie Burke, 17, and Burke's?13-year-old brother, Mason,?got stranded?Sunday near Freeman Reservoir north of Craig, or about 75 miles by road northeast of Steamboat Springs. They were supposed to return home by 5 that evening, but their snowmobiles got caught in 2 to 3 feet of snow.

See the original story at 9news.com in Denver

"I called in search and rescue and told them where we were," Justin told KUSA. "Then I started digging a pit, which I dug about 6 or 7 feet down. I pulled my friend Jessie in because his foot was frozen and I pulled his little brother into the pit."

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Justin said?he?collected?firewood, which he?lit?inside the pit, and the blaze?lasted for about five hours. When that went out, the boys sat in the cold for about two hours, KUSA said.

So?Justin took matches from his?survival kit and threw a match into the?snowmobile's fuel tank, which burned for?about two hours, KUSA reported.

"That's the only thing that we've got left to burn," Justin said. "It was gasoline and we all know that gasoline catches fire real quick. So I lit a match dropped it in the tank and figured, if anything, that would give them a big enough flame to see us."

Justin's father,?Bruce, told KUSA?that with 10 years?in Boy Scouts, the group's survival training?kept Justin and his friends alive. That's where he had learned to pack a survival kit and?how to make a snow pit.

Still,?Justin told KUSA,?they were afraid.

"We tried to stay calm," Justin told KUSA. "There were some times that we figured that they just stopped looking for us, figured we were dead."

Justin?sent text messages throughout the night, although his phone could no longer make calls, KUSA said.

Crews finally reached the three boys?about 8 a.m. Monday, about 15 hours after the search began, KUSA reported.

Jessie and Mason were taken to the hospital for observation and were?released and are doing?fine, KUSA said.

Moffat County Sheriff Tim Jantz told KUSA the three boys did the right thing by staying where they were.

"As far as rescuers, we try to tell people to stay put," Jantz said. "If possible, stay with your vehicle, stay in one location so crews can find you."

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