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Inmarsat plc announced the acquisition of the business and assets of Segovia, Inc., a provider of secure Internet protocol managed solutions and services to the United States Army and other U.S. military services and government agencies.
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Currently there are two major dish net TV providers in the US, Dish Network being one of them. Almost all that people know about Dish Net TV is that it provides high quality signal and hundreds of channels. In this article I will explain in more detail what exactly that is in order for you to be able to make a more informed choice when you are subscribing.
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Nowadays everybody is switching to this new type of high quality television. Currently there are two major Satellite TV providers in the US the favorite one being Dish Network. Here I will shed some light about it so that you can make a better decision if you decide to join them.

Iran plans to launch a small communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, Telecommunications Minister Reza Taqipour was quoted as saying.
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Three GLONASS-M satellites have been sent back to manufacturer Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, Interfax reported citing an unnamed source at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.
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On 19 November 2009, the company e-GEOS, which is jointly owned by Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency ASI, announced that it signed a contract with ESA to supply optical and radar satellite data for the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a contract in excess of C$200 million (EUR126 million, US$187 million) with the Russian Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR) to provide two advanced technology solutions for the Ekspress AM5 and Ekspress AM6 satellites.
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