Satellite News

NASA has successfully completed a comprehensive pre-shipment review of the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, a small, microsatellite class spacecraft bus that will carry six experiment payloads to low-Earth orbit.

German satellite service provider atrexx has announced the launch of a trio of services aimed specifically at customers based in Africa, with additional coverage of the Middle East region.

One of the things that satellite TV is well known for is it is fabulous sports packages. There isn’t a single cable competitor that can begin to compete with the amount of options and high quality coverage that satellite TV can offer. For this reason, many serious sports fans have switched their television service to satellite recently. The programming and coverage in other types of shows and movies are also excellent, so the superb sporting events package is like the icing on the cake.

Year after year for the last several decades we have complained about cable television service. When we called them for service we were told they would be there next week somewhere between 8 am and 7pm. That meant we’d have to take the day off of work to sit in the house and wait. Cable was King. Cable television companies felt no need to worry. Until now.
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Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 launcher for its next mission (V195), which will orbit a dual-passenger payload in a lift-off scheduled on 23 June.
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NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corporation to launch the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft known as IRIS.
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XCOR Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced the first successful demonstration of XCOR’s long life, high performance piston pump technology with liquid hydrogen.
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