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Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced an US$18 million, multi-year agreement to supply Avanti Communications Group, plc with advanced Ka-band networking infrastructure for Avanti’s HYLAS 2 satellite, building on the initial US$24 million contract to supply Ka-band technology for HYLAS 1 signed last October.

GIOVE-B has completed its second year in orbit. The satellite was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 27 April 2008 to help validate the technologies developed for the Galileo navigation constellation.

The internet is a fantastic way to get lots of information right from the comfort of your home, all at the click of a button. It’s also a fantastic way to get all the media you could possibly want quickly and easily.
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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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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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