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China will launch its Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft sometime in mid-June to perform the country’s first manned space docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, state media reported.
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Sea Launch announced that it has released preliminary “Quick Look” payload unit (PLU) telemetry information to Intelsat S.A. and Space Systems/Loral on 8 June 2012. The launch provider said that while all systems aboard the Zenit 3SL rocket performed nominally, there was indeed an “unexpected event” 72 seconds after lift-off.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into safe mode early Friday, 8 June UTC, when the spacecraft detected unexpected characteristics in movement of one of its reaction wheels. The spacecraft uses three of these wheels as the primary method for adjusting and maintaining its orientation. It carries a spare reaction wheel.
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Trek, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of high-voltage amplifiers and electrostatic voltmeters, has one of its products onboard a satellite recently launched in Japan.
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Globalstar, Inc. announced that it did not pay Thales Alenia Space France EUR53 million termination charges by 9 June as required by an arbitration panel ruling. Under certain circumstances, this could affect the planned launch of six Globalstar satellites scheduled for later this year.
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DISH Network announced a collaboration with Qualcomm to enable support of satellite-based communications in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 platform, the world’s first dual-core solution with an integrated multi-mode 3G/LTE modem, for use in future DISH wireless devices.
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The Auto-Hop feature was created by DISH to automatically hop over commercials during the evening hours with the Prime Time Anytime feature. This feature is available on the Hopper and Joey system. The Hopper is the primary high-definition unit with a digital video recorder while the Joey’s are secondary high-definition receivers that utilize a tuner from the Hopper. This feature is only available during primetime broadcasting when recorded on the Hopper set-top box with Prime Time Anytime. Existing (DVR) Digital Video Recorder customers already have the option to skip over the commercials with skip forward button that hops forward thirty seconds. The purpose of this feature is to provide a more enjoyable experience for the end-user. Those who prefer to skip over the commercials can automatically do so with the Hopper rather than having to press the button every time a show goes into commercial.Other Posts:Atlas V launches U.S. spy […]