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Archive for August 20th, 2010

Azerbaijan says ‘nyet’ to Russian launch technology

August 20th, 2010 by

Azerbaijan does not want its AzerSpace (aka AzerSat) satellite to be launched by a Russian company, business information portal ABC.AZ reported.
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Boeing gets contract for seventh WGS satellite

August 20th, 2010 by

Boeing has won a contract worth US$182 million to start construction of the Wideband Global SATCOM Satellite 7 for the U.S. Air Force.
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NRC endorses LISA gravitational-wave mission

August 20th, 2010 by

The U.S. National Research Council (NRC) has strongly recommended the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as one of NASA’s next two major space missions, to start in 2016 in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). LISA will study the universe in a manner different from any other space observatory, by observing gravitational waves.
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DARPA refocuses its System F6

August 20th, 2010 by

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it is re-focusing its System F6 (Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange) fractionated spacecraft demonstrator programme to emphasise development of an open and ubiquitous space architecture and an associated set of open standards.
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Pulling Out the Stops With Your Satellite TV Service

August 20th, 2010 by

Whenever you are presented with an opportunity to take a good thing and make it even better, you would be a fool not to take advantage of it. This idea applies when we look at home entertainment systems in people’s TV rooms across the country, and especially when they’ve got a satellite TV subscription. Everyone by now knows that satellite television is quite simply the king of the TV market, and offers the most incredible channel lineups, extras, packages, and so on.

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Get More Channels Than Cable With Satellite TV

August 20th, 2010 by

Here in America we generally like to get more-no matter what it is, as long as it’s good. When it comes to something as good and classically-American as the television, all of us surely want to get more. We want to be able to have access to more channels with more features to entertain us and interact with, and we want to experience more of the hi-tech component in our television service.

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Enjoy Amazing Picture Quality With Satellite TV

August 20th, 2010 by

The Satellite TVs hit the market in 1990s and since then were favored with high alluring profits. Earlier, they were installed by setting up large metal dish units at the roof top. This was tedious and tough task. With time however, technology innovated and novel Satellite TV came into being. They are compact units which are installed over the roof top so that finest quality of picture and sound can be attained.
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Distinction Between Cable and Satellite TV

August 20th, 2010 by

Many people wonder why they should get a satellite TV connection over a cable TV connection. One can look at the pros and cons of both cable and satellite TV. An individual can watch…
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