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Spanish operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace to launch its new Amazonas-3 telecommunications satellite.
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RSCC Deputy General Director Yevgeny Buidinov said the company plans to launch a replacement satellite for Ekspress AM4, which was lost in a launch failure.
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NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in late September or early October 2011, almost six years after the end of a productive scientific life. Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere.
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SES S.A. and Gazprom Space System (GSS) announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide additional satellite capacity to serve the Russian market.
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Intelsat has entered into a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement with Orion Express LLC, a DTH television services provider in Russia, for standard- and high-definition content.
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC announced that it has made its first shipment of advanced Ka-band gateway equipment and satellite terminals to Al Yah Satellite Communications company PrJSC (Yahsat), based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Optimal Satcom said it has been awarded a multi-year contract by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) to provide its enterprise satellite capacity system to help manage ABS’ growing commercial satellite business.
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We all love our TV sets, and frankly speaking, we can say that the human race would not have been the same it were not for television. Every day we turn on our televisions and get our daily dose of information, entertainment and a bit of lazy time wasting.