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[buywell2] 22/7/2014 06:57

150p a temporary space station dock ?










AVN

Another Very Nasty

Example of how rampy posters over egg the investment pudding luring the unwary and newbes into losing lots of their lolly.

Debt will most probably bring this down to earth if the space junk doesn't












buywell2 13 Jun'14 - 06:31 - 342 of 361 0 1 edit

10% finance sounds twice as much as it should have been

Debt will be a big problem for this going forwards

Mkt Cap £315m on a turnover of £20m and loss making looks a recipe for disaster

[buywell2] 22/7/2014 06:53

AVN

Another Very Nasty

Example of how rampy posters over egg the investment pudding and luring the unwary and newbes into losing lots of their lolly.

Debt will most probably bring this down to earth if the space junk doesn't












buywell2 13 Jun'14 - 06:31 - 342 of 361 0 1 edit

10% finance sounds twice as much as it should have been

Debt will be a big problem for this going forwards

Mkt Cap £315m on a turnover of £20m and loss making looks a recipe for disaster

[divinausa1] 22/7/2014 00:44

dont invest in AIM companies anymore, but still have a holding in a few unfortunately. They are all up and down like a yoyo. With shorters attacking them yet directors buying so many im willing to hold them all for better days...

AVN
GBO
QPP

to mention 3 where directors have bought shed loads, yet shorters have taken big bites

[gekks] 21/7/2014 23:36

AVN are now under the market cap of the insurance valuation for a failed Hylas2 launch. Today's 11% drop is based on £3m volume of a £200M capitalisation. AIM truly is a cesspit .

[weatherman] 21/7/2014 23:24

When brokers can chop and change their forecast by such a big margin it makes you wonder what worth they are, and why anyone should take any notice...its all a game where you pick a number...any number...divide by two and add 10...

[duckduckgo] 21/7/2014 15:30

More from Matthew Earl on his bearish views. Despite myself, it is interesting given what he says about the latest bond being a rescue fundraising becuase otherwise they'd be down to $6m by the beginning of October. It's certainly make me think. Any views fr4om the older hands?

hxxp://lordshipstrading.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Avanti

[arichardwilson] 21/7/2014 15:04

Does anyone have the Jeffries report?

[woozle1] 21/7/2014 14:06

Sounds like even Jefferies are fed up with Williams's endless bullishness/fiction.
W

[arichardwilson] 21/7/2014 13:41

Perhaps open it then copy and paste?

[megabear] 21/7/2014 13:07

It's a pdf. Not sure how to post that on ADVFN.

[arichardwilson] 21/7/2014 12:56

Can you post it please.

[megabear] 21/7/2014 11:53

Jeffries note is dreadfully negative. Numbers slashed across the board. and questioning the credibility of management. Think they only put a Hold on it as they are broker.

[woozle1] 21/7/2014 10:44

Can the bulls smell the coffee?
W

[bulltradept] 21/7/2014 09:49

On the chart, is that a gap at £1.70 ish I see there?

[someuwin] 21/7/2014 07:44

Jefferies downgrades AVN to HOLD and reduces target to 250...

21 Jul 2014
Avanti... AVN
Jefferies International
Hold
Old Target 580.00
New target 250.00
Downgrades

[weatherman] 20/7/2014 08:15

Avanti uses geostationary satellites, much higher than where most of the debris is located...

[buywell2] 19/7/2014 10:10

''The February 2009 crash between a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite and an Iridium Communications Inc. satellite left around 1,500 pieces of junk whizzing around the earth at 4.8 miles a second. ''






Space is so littered with debris that a collision between satellites could set off an "uncontrolled chain reaction" capable of destroying the communications network on Earth, a Pentagon report warned.


The volume of abandoned rockets, shattered satellites and missile shrapnel in the Earth's orbit is reaching a "tipping point" and is now threatening the $250 billion (£174bn) space services industry, scientists said.

A single collision between two satellites or large pieces of "space junk" could send thousands of pieces of debris spinning into orbit, each capable of destroying further satellites.

Global positioning systems, international phone connections, television signals and weather forecasts are among the services which are at risk of crashing to a halt.

This "chain reaction" could leave some orbits so cluttered with debris that they become unusable for commercial or military satellites, the US Defense Department's interim Space Posture Review warned last year.

There are also fears that large pieces of debris could threaten the lives of astronauts in space shuttles or at the International Space Station.


The report, which was sent to Congress in March and not publicly released, said space is "increasingly congested and contested" and warned the situation is set to worsen.

Bharath Gopalaswamy, an Indian rocket scientist researching space debris at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, estimates that there are now more than 370,000 pieces of junk compared with 1,100 satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO), between 490 and 620 miles above the planet.

The February 2009 crash between a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite and an Iridium Communications Inc. satellite left around 1,500 pieces of junk whizzing around the earth at 4.8 miles a second.

A Chinese missile test destroyed a satellite in January 2007, leaving 150,000 pieces of debris in the atmosphere, according to Dr Gopalaswamy.

The space junk, dubbed "an orbiting rubbish dump", also comprises nuts, bolts, gloves and other debris from space missions.

"This is almost the tipping point," Dr Gopalaswamy said. "No satellite can be reliably shielded against this kind of destructive force."

The Chinese missile test and the Russian satellite crash were key factors in pushing the United States to help the United Nations issue guidelines urging companies and countries not to clutter orbits with junk, the Space Posture Review said in May.

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) issued Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines in 2009, urging the removal of spacecraft and launch vehicles from the Earth's orbit after the end of their missions.

Mazlan Othman, director of UNOOSA, said space needs "policies and laws to protect the public interest".

He added: "We should have all the instruments to make sure that lifestyles are not disrupted because of misconduct in space when people switch the television to watch the World Cup next month in Johannesburg."

[michaelmouse] 19/7/2014 09:47

No they're not



Michael.