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If you are like any other die-hard sports fan, you know how important it is to catch every moment of every game, especially when it comes to your favorite hometown team. Problem is, unless you live in your team’s city, sometimes it can be nearly impossible to catch all their games with your cable TV programming schedule. In addition, the coverage of your team might get cut short if another important game starts at the same time.

With so many travel shows on television lately, it’s difficult to tell some of them apart at this point. It seems like every week there is another exclusive insider’s look at jetting off to some faraway destination, braving an off-the-beaten-path adventurer’s paradise, or checking out whatever the next Prague is going to end up being. Whether it’s an increased case of wanderlust that the country is experiencing or a sense of envy at knowing that in these economic times, the high definition screen is as close as many of us can get to heading off on a far-flung vacation, there’s no stopping travel shows.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 7.2 million km with a 1444 UTC landing Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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DirecTV 12 has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of a 29 December launch, Russia’s Khrunichev Center said.
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Koreasat-6 satellite prime contractor Thales Alenia Space announced that it has shipped the payload to Orbital Sciences Corporation for final integration aboard their STAR-2 platform.
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Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems is currently conducting development tests of the onboard control subsystem designed for the new-generation navigation spacecraft GLONASS-K.
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SES S.A., Intelsat, Ltd., and Inmarsat plc announced that they have founded the Space Data Association Ltd. (SDA), a non-profit company established in the Isle of Man that is the first satellite operator-led association dedicated to sharing critical operational data in support of satellite operations, improving flight safety and preserving the space environment.
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Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile and towerCast announced the first satellite broadcast infrastructure to demonstrate the potential services of mobile TV, digital radio and data using digital video broadcasting satellite service to handhelds (DVB-SH) standard to be deployed in Paris and surrounding suburbs.
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