Satellite News

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Mini-Research Module 2 (”Poisk”); Date: 10 November 2009, 1422 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The spacecraft separated from the booster rocket about nine minutes after the launch and began an autonomous flight.
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International Launch Services (ILS) and Sirius XM Radio announced a contract for the launch of the XM-5 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is scheduled for launch in 2010. This is the tenth firm award announced by ILS this year.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, on behalf of Lockheed Martin Space Launch Services, will launch the commercial Intelsat-14 satellite from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 14 November.
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Iran’s satellite launch plans remain confusing. Over the past weeks, Iranian media tried to prepare the public for the immanent launch of the country’s long-delayed Mesbah satellite aboard an indigenous rocket. Now a completely different story has been told by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
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The Planetary Society announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010, which will be made possible by a US$1 million anonymous donation.
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exactEarth Ltd., a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with a non-government entity to provide its exactAIS service.
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Gilat Satcom Ltd. has signed multi-year renewal and expansion deals with Intelsat, securing capacity and teleport services that will increase and enhance Gilat Satcom’s offerings for its domestic networks and broadband services to its customers in Africa. Separately, a Ukrainian TV platform has contracted capacity on Thor 6, of which Intelsat owns 10 transponders.
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Cheap satellite TV has not been always so easily available. There were times when a decent TV system was thousands of dollars which included the dish and all the electronic boxes that came up with it. Not only that but you needed to pay hundreds of dollars more for the mere installation. In this article I will explain in general what the DVB Television providers offer nowadays.
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