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Television as an industry has only really been around since the 1950′s but ever since people have been watching TV they’ve wanted to be able to take it with them. Today, however, watching mobile TV virtually anywhere you go is a snap, all because of sling technology.
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After a day of hard work, everybody wishes to relax and settle down watching a favorite program. However, this kind of pleasure can be hard to achieve when there is failure to receive clear reception by your television set. There are people who get no signal at all just because of their geographical locations.
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In consultation and agreement with Fobos-Grunt mission managers, ESA engineers ended tracking support today.

Rocket: Chang-Zheng 3A; Payload: Beidou-2 IGSO-5 ‘Compass-I5′; Date: 2 December 2011, 2107 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China. The successful launch marks the completion of phase one of China’s indigenous satellite navigation system.

Excellent launch precision for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction manoeuvre, now not required for a month or more.

Antwerp Space NV, a subsidiary of OHB AG, and Thales Alenia Space France, the industrial prime contractor in the implementation of the European Galileo Ground Mission Segment (GMS), signed a contract for the design, development and construction of the FOC (Full Operational Capability) phase of the Mission Data Dissemination Network.