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Do you always spend you free time watching movies? Well, if this is the case, you should save some bucks every time that you want to watch movies on the big screen. Actually, it is very unpractical. You spend some dollars and you only watch a movie or two.

Rocket: Ariane 5 ECA; Payload: Arabsat-5A, COMS [Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite]; Date: 26 June 2010, 2141 UTC; Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana. Arabsat-5A was deployed first during the flight sequence at 26 minutes into the mission. The COMS satellite was separated from Ariane 5 at 32 minutes into the flight.

Arianespace said it decided to postpone the launch of Arabsat 5A and COMS aboard an Ariane 5 ECA owing to a launch vehicle pressurisation anomaly on the main cryogenic stage during final countdown operations.
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NASA said it will shut down its first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, on 27 June.
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The U.S. Air Force announced that U.S. Strategic Command operationally accepted command and control of its third Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, WGS-3.
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The European Galileo satellite navigation project needs financing of EUR1.5 billion (US$1.85 billion) on top of the already budgeted EUR3.4 billion, Le Monde reported.
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. has signed a multi-million dollar contract with e-GEOS, a provider of satellite services in Europe, to provide a Radarsat ground information solution into their existing ground station in Matera, Italy.
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If you are the kind of person who believes that football is played by throwing a brown ball through the air and not by kicking a black and white ball on the ground then there is a television package that is perfect for you. If you ask most Americans what kind of football they like, American football or soccer, most of the time they are going to say American football. It might not be that popular in other places in the world, but that doesn’t really matter because in the United States it’s arguably the most popular sport in the country.