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An international Launch Services Proton M/Briz M is to launch DirecTV 12 on 29 December 2009, 0022 UTC. The launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Briz M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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NASA has selected Space Systems/Loral to receive a contract for the propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract has a maximum value of US$8.86 million.
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COM DEV International Ltd. announced that it has won a contract to provide waveguide and coaxial switches for a commercial broadband communication satellite.
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Satellite links are widely used in telecommunications and television broadcast. The factors affecting a satellite link are earth station characteristics, link BER, rain attenuation and antenna pointing errors.
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With the very simple slogan of “very funny,” TBS is a network that has developed a class-clown image for itself in a very successful way over the course of the years. A range of movies, shows, comedy, and an online comedic community have helped raise the network’s profile. With the number of channels available on satellite TV, TBS has made a name for itself by carefully selecting high quality comedic programming from yesterday, and placing it in the high-tech, online context of the world of today.
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So, you’ve heard all about it but you want to actually learn the specific reasons for why satellite TV services are in such high demand these days, right? Well then you have come to the right place, because here we plan to unveil the five principal reasons for why the satellite industry is sitting at the top of the television service provider hill.
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Parents all across the country have been and continue to be worried about the effects of watching television on their children. This problem only seems to become more and more prominent as the years go by, due to the fact that the average daily viewership of our youth (measured in hours, not minutes mind you) continues to increase at an alarming rate.
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Commercials are the mainstay of dish network revenue and yet they are the ones people snipe out when they record satellite TV channels. Advertisers have to bear the brunt for the most attractive of dish TV features- the DVR. While they find out a solution to that, let’s examine what consumers think of commercials on direct satellite TV channels.
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