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Archive for June 24th, 2010

Delay of the day: Ariane 5

June 24th, 2010 by

The heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA mission with the Arabsat-5A and COMS satellite passengers has been scrubbed two times in a row.
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Successful tests of ‘green’ engines in space

June 24th, 2010 by

The environmentally benign propulsion system HPGP (High Performance Green Propulsion), which makes it first spaceflight ever on the Swedish Prisma satellites, has been testfired for the first time in space.
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Harris gets SGSS subcontract

June 24th, 2010 by

Harris Corporation has been awarded a five-year, US$140 million contract by General Dynamics to modernise the ground segment of the satellite communications network used by NASA.
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Eliminating Digital Divide With Satellite Telecommunications

June 24th, 2010 by

Digital divide refers to the gap between people with access to digital technology and those with very limited or no access to digital and information technology at all. Satellite telecommunications is making leaps and bounds in eliminating digital divide by providing satellite Internet access to parts of the world that were previously unable to access the Internet.
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Digital TVs at Affordable Rates

June 24th, 2010 by

Quality: The eye soothing pictures and ear pleasing sound are the specialities of the specially designed satellites. The decoder provided in DTV is to decode the signals transmitted through satellite, which is also known as a receiver box. There are many other options which give the DTV a control over the content, like the locking system to lock the channels you don’t want other to see and a receiver boxes.

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