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Rocket: Proton M/Briz-M; Payload: SES-1 (AMC-4R); Date: 24 April 2010, 1119 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. After an eight-hour, 58-minute mission, the Briz M successfully released the SES-1 satellite directly into geostationary orbit.
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Japan’s SERVIS-2 spacecraft has arrived in Russia, in preparation for a scheduled June launch aboard a Rokot launch vehicle.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it launched its Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) on 22 April at 2300 UTC from Vandenberg Air Force Base but lost contact with the vehicle shortly after it was deployed.
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Kids these days don’t realize what a different world they are growing up in. They live in the age of gadgets like wireless Internet and satellite television. People can check their email from their cellular phone when some years ago most people didn’t even own cellular phones, and years before that they didn’t exist. When it comes to television, much has changed. First, there are so many channels these days.
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Nothing has got television viewers more excited these days than high definition technology, which is offering a quality of image that is quite simply phenomenal-much better than anything we’ve seen up till now! The comparison with standard definition is simply so uneven that it barely deserves much elaboration. And to think that it wasn’t all that long ago that we were all watching incredibly grainy and spotty images on our tube TVs while smacking the side of the box when what was already a bad image became intolerably worse! The times have really changed for television viewers (i.e. all of us), and in just about any home in America you will find people enjoying HD television programming. In some unfortunate cases, however, people think that they are enjoying high def television when in reality they aren’t because they have not taken all the necessary measures to do so.
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Technology changes the way we live and the quality of life we enjoy, plain and simple. Those are the defining features of technology.
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It seems that more and more people are making the switch from digital cable television to satellite television. Why is this happening? Take a look at the two types of television companies and discover the many reasons why satellite TV is coming out op top.
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As the seasons change, the stack of bills and their respective prices has a tendency to change too. The amount you are spending on heat, gas, electricity, water and other basic utilities is sure to change.
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