Satellite News

The SMOS Earth Explorer satellite safely arrived at Arkhangelsk airport in Northern Russia this morning onboard an Antonov 124 cargo plane. This marks the start of the launch campaign for this ESA satellite.

Lockheed Martin has successfully completed acoustic testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite.

The U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program achieved a major milestone on September 2009 when it flew its 200th mission.

Eurobird 1 at 28.5 degrees is fully operational again, according to Eutelsat.

EchoStar, Intelsat, SES and Telesat announced the formation of a Coalition for Competitive Launches, which they say is “aimed at enhancing worldwide competition in the provision of commercial satellite launches, a business led today by Russian and French companies.”

As part of a nationwide programme to modernise ICT capabilities in Moroccan schools, Nortis Cimecom, a VSAT operator and long-standing partner of Eutelsat, has been selected by the Ministry for Education and the national telecommunications regulatory authority to deliver a satellite-based broadband service to schools beyond range of terrestrial networks.

If you are looking for a reliable pay televion provider, Dish Network and AT&T are certainly ready to take your money. While Dish Network has been around for years, AT&T U-verse is a service still in its infancy. How do these two providers stack up when doing a side by side comparison?
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The free to air system, also known as FTA, is sophisticated satellite technology that allows you to watch television programs with any qualified FTA receiver, such as the SonicView system. With these such systems, a client is required to download an FTA receiver program as well as various support files.
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