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Multichannel TV Homes Crests 500 Million in Asia Pacific
Read more →: Multichannel TV Homes Crests 500 Million in Asia Pacific[Via Satellite 12-01-2014] The number of homes with multichannel television in the Asia Pacific has reached 500,639,000 according…
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Airbus, ESA Conduct Gigabit Laser Connection Between Satellites
Read more →: Airbus, ESA Conduct Gigabit Laser Connection Between Satellites[Via Satellite 12-01-2014] Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency (ESA) have completed a test linking…
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Inmarsat Approves Hughes 9211-HDR Portable BGAN Terminal
Read more →: Inmarsat Approves Hughes 9211-HDR Portable BGAN Terminal[Via Satellite 12-01-2014] Hughes Network Systems’ new Hughes 9211-High Data Rate (HDR) Portable BGAN Terminal has received Inmarsat-type…
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Eutelsat Providing Satellite Broadband Through Croatian Post Office Network
Read more →: Eutelsat Providing Satellite Broadband Through Croatian Post Office Network[Via Satellite 12-01-2014] Croatian post offices are now offering Eutelsat’s Tooway satellite broadband through the KA-SAT High Throughput…
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Josh Byerly shares his experiences on being a voice for NASA
Read more →: Josh Byerly shares his experiences on being a voice for NASAFormer NASA Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Josh Byerly has talked openly about the public and private process of…
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NHK to Broadcast 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 8K
Read more →: NHK to Broadcast 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 8K[Via Satellite 12-01-2014] Japanese public broadcaster NHK has been at the forefront of advances in video technology with…
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China’s homegrown GPS ready to be used for smartphones
Read more →: China’s homegrown GPS ready to be used for smartphonesA Chinese company has rolled out a chip that can help smartphones get easy access to the country’s…
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Service module of China’s returned lunar orbiter reaches L2 point
Read more →: Service module of China’s returned lunar orbiter reaches L2 pointThe service module belonging to China’s unmanned lunar orbiter has reached the Earth-Moon second Lagrange Point (L2), the…
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Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flyby
Read more →: Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flybyArtist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: NASA On the final stretch of a speedy…
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Soyuz 2-1B lofts GLONASS K-1 satellite
Read more →: Soyuz 2-1B lofts GLONASS K-1 satelliteA Russian Soyuz 2-1B has launched the much-delayed GLONASS K-1 Global Navigation satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Launch…
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Launch of Japanese asteroid probe delayed
Read more →: Launch of Japanese asteroid probe delayedJapanese technicians attach the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft on top of its H-2A launcher. Credit: JAXA Poor weather at…
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Orion’s crewed asteroid mission unlikely to occur prior to 2024
Read more →: Orion’s crewed asteroid mission unlikely to occur prior to 2024The proposed mission to send two astronauts to a captured asteroid near the Moon won’t occur until the middle of…