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ViaSat Inc. has named senior vice president Tom Moore as president of its newly acquired WildBlue subsidiary. Mr. Moore was a co-founder of WildBlue in 1998 and served as president and CEO until 2005, continuing as a director of the company until 2008.

The dish network channels appeal strongly to women for a number of reasons. Satellite TV channels educate and inform women about a variety of aspects connected to everyday life. They like having an entertainment friend as they go about their careers and life at home. Here’s a study of how dish TV brings women in front of TV screens.

Consumers are a smart lot these days. They know that time is precious and even when they are being entertained they want to take back something from that experience.

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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