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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have scheduled the launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17 (H-IIA F17) for 17 May (UTC).
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Kazakhstan hopes that Russia will finally phase out its workhorse Proton rocket, but unless there is a replacement does not object further Proton launches from Baikonur.
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Boeing announced that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on 1 March, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of on-orbit tests.
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Mini- thrusters or miniature, electric propulsion systems are being developed, which could make it easier for the U.S. Air Force’s small satellites, including the latest CubeSats, to perform space manoeuvres and undertake tasks like searching for planets beyond our solar system.
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GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) announced it has been awarded a contract to supply batteries for Orbital Sciences Corporation’s (Orbital) Cygnus manoeuvring space vehicle. Cygnus will be used to provide cargo delivery services to the International Space Station.
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Eutelsat Communications has signed a major contract with UPSTAR Comunicacoes for satellite capacity for the broadcasting of ZAP pay-TV platform, expected to launch shortly in Angola.
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The time has come for many Americans to go ahead and change their TV along with the television service that they are currently using. Just think of how many people you know that are still watching movies, the news, etc. on a dinky old tube TV that they inherited from their grandmother or aunt and which was built way back in the 70s or 80s. The grainy image, the constant crackle of the built-in speakers: so many viewing woes are generated by watching the television on such a set.
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For people that have actually paid some attention to the satellite TV industry for the last few decades, it is incredibly surprising to see just how far ahead of the competition the industry has gotten as compared with the scenario of a good while back. Such people will obviously know that in the initial days of satellite, few people gave the industry much hope at all-rather, it was generally assumed that satellite would always play second fiddle to the cable industry with (at least then) its superior service reliability and the greater variety of channels offered to viewers. Yet the times have changed, and quite drastically it would seem, as today satellite television has completely supplanted cable TV as the vanguard of home television services and anybody these days that wants to get the very best of the best knows that they have simply got to turn to a leading […]