Satellite News

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide a remote ground station solution to an unnamed international customer to enable support for the WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 satellites.

SES Americom-New Skies announced that Spacenet has signed a multiyear satellite capacity agreement to help meet growing demand for emergency communications capabilities across North America.

Why should Spanish speakers investigate what satellite TV companies have to offer in the way of native language programming? Direct TV Mas and Dish Latino are the alternative to cable TV when considering Spanish channels.
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Satellite TV systems have become extremely popular in the last 15 years in both the United States and worldwide. What can a satellite TV system offer that cable television cannot?
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The Digital TV switch over has caused a bit of unexpected chaos, and many folks despite all the warning had their TV signal canceled, and their older TVs cannot get the new digital signals. As I understand it there were 800,000 calls the day when the switch was made overwhelming the system set up to deal with the potential complaints. Those frequency allocations are needed due to the running out of allocated frequencies, but there are also very big complaints about other needs for those frequencies.