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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about 400 meters away, where it may begin using its drill.

SES announced that it has signed a capacity agreement with Romantis, a global provider of satellite capacity and networking equipment, to support the growing connectivity needs across Russia and Central Asia.

Have you ever watched the local news waiting for the weather report? Perhaps you had something to do that weekend, and you wanted to make sure the weather would be good before you made your plans. How about this; have you ever noted that the weather person was standing right in front of the map at the exact location that you were interested in seeing? Perhaps there was a radar precipitation graphic flowing over the landscape, and behind the weather person reporter. But you couldn’t see it because they would not get out of the darn way.

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Stockholm, Sweden, August 28, 2012–The results of Ericsson ConsumerLab's annual study – presented in the TV & Video Consumer Trend Report 2012 – reveal that social TV is becoming a mass-market phenomenon. Sixty-two percent of consumers use social media while watching TV on a weekly basis, an increase of 18 percentage points in one year. By gender, 66 percent of women engage in this behavior, compared to 58 percent of men. Twenty-five percent of consumers use social media to discuss what they are watching while they are watching it.

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The launch of an Atlas V carrying NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) payload was scrubbed again, this time due to weather conditions associated with lightning, as well as cumulus and anvil clouds.

Following the successful acceptance review, Astrium has brought the third and fourth Galileo IOV (In-Orbit Validation) satellites to the European Space Agency (ESA) in Kourou, French Guiana. The two satellites are to be launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. They will join the two Astrium IOV satellites already in space to complete the Galileo IOV (In Orbit Validation) configuration.