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Get the Best Dish TV Entertainment

February 19th, 2010 by

If you love to watch soccer then you should book your ticket to the soccer season without wasting time. Cannot afford the time and money to watch the game on the stadium? Do not worry; you can still get the best seat for the game – right in front of your computer screen. With dish TV season ticket you can get the best view of the game. There is some of the best sports package available with satellite TV. You can get the best college soccer games along with professional football on different dish channels.

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What is Free to Air Satellite TV?

February 19th, 2010 by

A Free to Air Satellite receiver (shorter is FTA ) refers on the way to satellite receivers that are planned on the way to collect unencrypted FTA satellite transmissions. Using these satellite receivers, one can with authorization receive Television alerts devoid of subscription. The indicate is usually encoded within an MPEG-2 film as well as may well be present restricted physically.
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Eutelsat W3B moved from CZ to Ariane 5

February 19th, 2010 by

Eutelsat said it has revised the launch arrangements for its W3B satellite.
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Thales Alenia Space ships second SATCOMBw satellite to Kourou

February 19th, 2010 by

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has shipped to the Kourou spaceport the SATCOMBw-2b satellite, which will be launched on 24 March by an Ariane 5 ECA.
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Stardust-NExT fires engines to delay arrival at comet

February 19th, 2010 by

NASA’s Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on 18 February (UTC) to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 hours 21 minutes.
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Eutelsat Communications results H1 FY2009/2010

February 19th, 2010 by

The Board of Directors’ meeting of Eutelsat Communications, under the chairmanship of Giuliano Berretta, met yesterday and reviewed the results for the first half year ending 31 December 2009.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation results 2009

February 19th, 2010 by

Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009.
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The DirecTV Group Inc. results 2009

February 19th, 2010 by

DirecTV reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2009.
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