Satellite News

The year-opening Ariane 5 mission was delayed today after an anomaly occurred in a launcher subsystem during final count-down operations.
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Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a launch at 1021 UTC on 5 April from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The EUMETSAT Special Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 26 March failed to unanimously approve the Programme Proposal and Programme Resolution for Meteosat Third Generation (MTG).
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In an unprecedented move, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has called on Iran to end jamming of foreign satellite broadcasts.
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited announced results for 2009 – and a change of plans for the AsiaSat 5C, which will now become AsiaSat 7.
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited announced that Peter Jackson will retire as Chief Executive Officer on 31 July 2010, and then be appointed as Executive Chairman on 1 August 2010 and remain as Executive Director of AsiaSat until 31 July 2011.
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The team that operates NASA’s Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will receive the 2010 International Space Ops Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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There are a lot of things you can learn from watching television, actually. You can definitely get a good idea of what the weather is going to be like in your fair city today, you can find out the top news stories in the States and abroad, and you can also beef up your knowledge of various cuisine, geography, and even sometimes foreign languages. But there is something else that you might be able to learn from watching television, and that is how to survive if you happen to get lost in the wilderness while parachuting from a helicopter above the Siberian steppe or hiking in Patagonia’s most inhospitable wilderness.
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