Satellite News

Many Direct TV customers have heard of the NFL Sunday Ticket package, but for one reason or another haven’t subscribed to all-you-can-eat football package. While the Sunday Ticket package isn’t exactly cheap, it does provide tons of NFL content, which is great for the serious NFL fan.

When speaking in terms of cheap, I’m not talking about low quality. I’m only speaking of cost effectiveness. If you pay for a service you should never have to sacrifice quality. The old saying “you get what you pay for” doesn’t always hold true for anyone willing to take the time to compare the pros with the cons to find a suitable service plan.

If there is one thing that every business owner in the nation strives to achieve more than anything else, it is to increase their repeat customer proportion as much as possible. It is a sign of success and of reliability for a company to have a high rate of repeat customers: it says to the business community at large, “I provide a quality service, and I’ve got the evidence to prove it!” Without a doubt, a company that has no repeat customers is highly suspect, and most surely enjoys a negative reputation among the business community and the wider community of local residents.

NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-127 mission for 17 June, 0940 UTC. The launch will take place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

ILS International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) said at the Paris Air Show that it has secured six firm launch orders and three mission assignments in the first half of 2009. All of them had been announced before, though.

Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Antonio Fabrizi, Director of Launchers for the European Space Agency (ESA), signed a framework contract concerning the procurement of launch services for future ESA missions.

ESA signed two contracts for the procurement of Long Lead Items required for the construction of the Galileo satellite constellation.

The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) III programme has entered the Critical Design Review (CDR) stage on-schedule, an extensive phase that precedes production of the next-generation satellite system.