Satellite News

Some of them say that cable TV is a need, but the others say that it is a want. If you are given an opportunity to answer that question, what do you think? Is it a need or a want?

Cable TV has been given an exclamation point by the viewers for a reason. The big reason that cable television subscribers and customers are totally satisfied with their services is because of two things. Those two things that results to customer satisfaction are entertainment and fun.

The three GLONASS satellites launched aboard a Proton M/Block DM-03 on 5 December were lost owing to a combination of systemic and human factors, President and Chief Designer of the Rocket-Space Corporation (RSC) Energia Vitaly Lopota was quoted as saying.

Arianespace’s year-ending Ariane 5 flight for 2010 has been rescheduled to 28 December between 2126 and 2215 UTC, allowing one of the mission’s customers to perform complementary checks on its payload.

NASA has awarded Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a contract worth approximately US$622,000 to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts, propulsion technologies and affordability.

China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) and the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) have signed the contract for the TKSat-1 communications satellite programme in La Paz.

Astrium subsidiary Dutch Space signed two large space contract together worth more than EUR50 million.

LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 mobile broadband satellite reportedly has fully deployed its 22-m diameter L-band reflector.