Satellite News

Is this the end of the TV receiver, as we know it? Ever since the 1930s we have purchased and used standalone TV sets for entertainment and up to date information but now things are changing. We live in a world that is very different from what it was only a few years ago, a world where digital TV, Satellite TV, computers and the Internet are all around us…

The analog sattelite TV, cable TV and terrestrial TV signals that we have watched and loved for the last few decades will soon be switched off and if you want to continue watching TV when that happens then you will need to upgrade your system to digital. You’ll also need to replace your VCR with a digital video recorder (DVR) or a Personal Video Recorder (PVR).

After 19 years of operation and a total of 6.5 million images acquired, Spot-2 has reached the end of its life. Technical teams from the CNES Toulouse Space Center have initiated manoeuvres that will prepare de-orbiting of the spacecraft.
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SSTL’s UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on 29 July 2009 at 1846 UTC.
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NASA is designing a mission to investigate magnetic reconnection, one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission, it was approved for implementation last month following a successful Preliminary Design Review in May 2009.
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China has delayed the launch of its first space telescope by two years for cost reasons, Xinhua news agency reports.
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