Satellite News

The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California for the equator, in preparation for the launch of the Intelsat-19 satellite owned by Intelsat. Lift-off is planned for 0523 UTC on 1 June at the opening of a 120-minute launch window.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the SES-5 satellite, designed and built for SES, has arrived at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it will be launched aboard a Proton Briz M vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
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NEC Corporation announced its role as a primary contractor of “Shizuku” (GCOM-W1), the water cycle observation satellite under the direction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that the Small Demonstration Satellite-4 (SDS-4) completed its critical phase operations and moved to the initial phase.
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Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation announced it has delivered a novel CubeSat solar array drive assembly (SADA) to MMA Design LLC, for integration into their High Watts per Kilogram (HaWK) tracked power system.
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Singapore, May 21, 2012–The Indian set-top box (STB) market has been increasing at a steady pace over the past few years. A strong surge of consumers moved to satellite platforms during 2011, representing 80% of the Indian market. Despite the large cable TV subscriber base in India, satellite TV growth will slow somewhat from the 10 million consumers that added services last year.

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Millions of consumers are now joining the satellite TV bandwagon since the birth of this television network technology, way back the early 90′s. The number of consumers signing up continues to increase every month making this service seem like a basic necessity in every home.
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