Satellite News

The time has arrived for you-yes, YOU-to get a satellite TV connection. Why? Well, basically because the industry at large has managed to bring the quality of their service up to such high standards that you simply cannot find a better service anywhere else, including from your local cable provider (especially from them, in fact).

NASA managers completed a review of space shuttle Endeavour’s readiness for flight and selected 13 June as the official launch date for the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station.
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The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace’s upcoming mission with the world’s largest commercial telecommunications satellite to be launched was moved to the Final Assembly Building, clearing the way for its integration of the TerreStar-1 payload.
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A new launch date has been announced for DubaiSat-1, the United Arab Emirates’ first remote-sensing satellite.
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Gazprom Space Systems confirmed that its Yamal-201 satellite had suffered an outage but said that services have meanwhile been restored.
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GeoEye, Inc. said that a recently discovered flaw in a certain operating mode of the company’s GeoEye-1 satellite will not materially impact revenues.
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KVH Industries, Inc., announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (also known as SP-JSAT) to lease satellite capacity on its JCSAT-1B and the new Intelsat-15 satellites.
Other Posts:Ekspress AM44 put into operationMDA hands over RapidEye systemGenCorp (Aerospace and Defense) results Q2 FY2007BNSC funds space surveillance projectArianespace plans seven to eight launches per year from 2008Ofcom To Investigate Pay-TV MarketCOM DEV to provide payload equipment for Asian EO satelliteIntegral Systems results Q3 FY 2006

Any satellite TV subscriber will be able to tell you that the beauty of the service lies in the details, and that even well after having originally acquired the service you will still learn new things about your connection capabilities and the multiple features that can be accessed. There really is a tremendous cocktail of perks associated with having a satellite television connection that are purely and simply unavailable for subscribers of other TV services (the unmentionable!), and this state of affairs is quite clearly convincing more and more home viewers that they need to be getting their connection from a satellite provider.