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The cameras of Resourcesat-2 were switched on today and Images of high quality were received at the Shadnagar Earth Station of ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre.
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Three prototype Cornell-University developed, fingernail-sized satellites — collecting the solar wind’s chemistry, radiation and particle-impact data — will be mounted on the International Space Station after the space shuttle Endeavour delivers them on its final flight, which is still scheduled to launch on 29 April.
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COM DEV International Ltd. has been awarded an Authorisation To Proceed (ATP) contract to provide equipment for a new commercial satellite.
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MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), a provider of communications, connectivity and content services to remote locations around the world, and ERZIA, a provider of VSAT maritime communications in Spain, announced that their joint venture to develop a teleport in Santander, Spain has been completed and is officially open.
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More than 120 representatives from industry and government recently attended the first meeting of the Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA), an organisation formed earlier this year to advance the use of hosted payloads on commercial satellites.
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If your experiences are similar to mine, you likely receive a knock on the door every so often from the cable company claiming they have saved significant money for the neighbors next door on their cable service and can do the same thing for you. A statement like this generally makes me pause and consider the facts. Many considerations go into deciding which television service to purchase. As you contemplate various viewing options, we wanted to briefly highlight some of the advantages of satellite TV.

With the advent of motorised satellite dish antenna it has become easy to watch channels from all over the world and belonging to different categories. Motorised satellite dish antenna saves us from the effort of turning the dish antenna to different directions each time we want to change the channel.