-via DiscoverMagazine.com
"The NuSTAR X-ray observatory began its successful journey into orbit! The satellite was launched using a Pegasus rocket, a smaller vehicle that is literally dropped from an airplane and blasts away into space......more
-via Reuters.com
" DirecTV Group, the largest U.S. satellite TV operator, could deploy technology that would enable its millions of subscribers to automatically skip television advertising, its top executive said on Monday.....more
-via KiroTV.com
"The FAA is hoping satellites guiding planes could be the key to greener, less noisy and cleaner flights....more
-via DailyTech.com
"China will send its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 orbital module at some point in June 2012, but the exact date hasn't been specified yet. The Shenzhou 9 already made its way to the launch platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center last Saturday, which is in northwest China.....more
-via KyivPost.com
"Ukrainian, Russian and Canadian participants of the international project on Ukraine's first national telecommunications satellite - the Lybid - have agreed a schedule of work on the construction and launch of the satellite in December 2013.....more
-via Reuters.com
"The United States is pushing on multiple fronts for increased global cooperation in space, including joint war games, combined operations with allies, and moves toward data-sharing deals with France, Japan and other countries.....more
-via ChicagoTribune.com
"Cisco's $5 billion acquisition of pay-TV smartcard maker NDS is on track despite the emergence of new allegations since the deal was announced that NDS used illegal means to undermine competitors, NDS's executive chairman told Reuters.....more
-via FoxBusiness.com
"A group of LightSquared's senior lenders concerned about the wireless satellite company burning through its cash are proposing to extend the company a 90-day lifeline in exchange for liens on the company's assets, a strict monthly budget and other conditions....more
-via Space.com
"Skywatchers have the opportunity to witness history today (June 5), as the planet Venus rambles across the face of the sun in a rare event that will not be visible again for 105 years....more
-via Tribune242.com
"A leading Bahamas-based satellite TV provider says it will have no problem being regulated by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), telling Tribune Business it welcomed fair competition but could not compete with ‘rogue’ operators undercutting on price.....more
-via WashingtonPost.com
"NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source — the nation’s satellite spy agency. The space agency confirmed Monday that it has received a pair of giant identical telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees the country’s constellation of spy satellites. NASA says the spy agency built them and then decided it didn’t need them.....more
-via FierceCable.com
"The number of complaints the Federal Communications Commission received from cable and satellite TV subscribers jumped 28 percent during the first quarter of 2012, with most consumers filing complaints involving service, programing or billing issues.....more
-via SunTimes.com
"The Illinois Senate narrowly voted Thursday to impose a $75 million tax on satellite television providers in a move GOP critics described as “just another tax increase.....more
-via Boston.com
"On Thursday, a Boston City Council committee finalized wording on an ordinance that seeks to clean satellite dish clutter. The proposal, supported by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, would require the removal of all out-of-use satellite dishes.....more
-via WTVR.com
"As children, everyone dreams of finding a long-lost city, or countless archaeological treasures much like the ones discovered by Howard Carter in the tomb of Tutankhamen. Some of us never outgrow that desire to seek out and explore ancient ruins. And, as it turns out, much of the ancient world remains unexplored and undiscovered....more
-via SJ-R.com
"A Senate committee approved a 5 percent tax on satellite television service on Wednesday, legislation Democrats said would put services like DirecTV and Dish Network on the same competitive playing field as cable television and raise money for education....more
-via VanguardNGR.com
"Can Nigeria survive future challenges of nation building, wealth creation, national security and global competitiveness without strategically applying Information Technology and Communication Satellites in particular?....more
-via LiveScience.com
"The same technology that detects your dorky "Dance Central 2" moves on your Xbox may soon help small satellites coordinate docking in space....more
-via BusinessWeek.com
"In the race to map Earth from space, GeoEye’s bid to swallow DigitalGlobe Inc. has left its own valuation at the lowest in three years. That could compel GeoEye to try and sell itself instead....more
-via NationalGeographic.com
"A newly discovered asteroid called 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth in February that it might hit a communications satellite, scientists say. "That's very unlikely, but we can't rule it out," said Paul Chodas, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California....more
-via WallStreetJournal.com
"Japan launched for the first time early Friday a rocket with a non-Japanese payload, fulfilling a spare-no-expense, two-decade quest to compete in the world's $4.3 billion commercial satellite-launch business.....more
-via SpaceflightNow.com
"Avoiding the perilous past of its forerunner, the U.S. Air Force's newly launched anti-jam communications satellite has successfully fired its main engine three times to maneuver toward the intended operational orbit.....more
-via SkyNews.com
"CSC Media Group, which is owned by the private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, has hired Lepe Partners, a new merchant banking firm established by one of the City's best-known media advisers, to find a new owner.....more
-via MarineLink.com
"This collaboration will deliver an end-to-end fleet management package for the commercial workboat and fishing markets, bringing Boatracs' market leading software applications to vessels via a reliable broadband connection in a single package....more
-via Space.com
"The ability to breathe new life into an aging satellite using robot mechanics could potentially boost satellite industry efficiency and reduce mission costs, and at least one aerospace firm is forging ahead with plans to do just that....more
-via WashingtonPost.com
"LightSquared said in its bankruptcy filing Monday, it will continue to try to win over the Federal Communications Commission to get its satellite venture up and running — a process that can take up to two years....more
-via HuffingtonPost.com
"The $2.9 billion Envisat spacecraft, which is about the size of a school bus, went mysteriously silent about a month ago after 10 successful years of studying our planet from orbit. The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Wednesday that it had given up hope of recovering the satelite, which died a year before its planned 2013 decommissioning....more
-via TimesOfIsrael.com
"A senior Iranian official announced Sunday that the country’s newest spy satellite would launch next month. This is not the first time that Iran has announced the imminent launch of the Fajr reconnaissance satellite....more
-via PCBDesign007.com
"Today marks T-minus two months to the 50th anniversary of the launch of the solar-powered Telstar satellite, which christened the modern media era by transmitting the first intercontinental television broadcasts.....more
-via Herald-Review.com
"The number of U.S. satellites watching Earth is expected to plummet by the year 2020, and weather forecasting — including hurricane tracking — could suffer as a result, a new report warns.....more
-via NDTV.com
"Since 1972, ISRO Sattelite Centre (ISAC) has built more than 50 satellites that cover a wide spectrum of technologies and applications such as TV broadcasting, telecommunications, telemedicine, distance education and radio networking among others, a release said.....more
-via SMN.com.au
"THE north-western NSW town of Bourke has been picked as one of 10 towns across Australia to host a satellite ground station as part of the national broadband network.....more
-via Reuters.com
"Satellite imagery company GeoEye said on Monday it was disappointed that rival DigitalGlobe Inc has rejected its takeover offer and is considering its options.....more
-via ChinaDaily.com
"The US space shuttle is no longer in service, and it will likely be several years before the United States can resume independent human spaceflight. As a result, China's upcoming Shenzhou IX mission to the Tiangong-1 space module will be viewed by some Americans with envy....more
-via WallStreetJournal.com
"Faced with a maturing pay-TV market in the U.S., DirecTV is betting on fast-growing Latin America markets like Brazil and Colombia—where pay-TV penetration remains low relative to the U.S.—to gain subscribers and boost profits....more
-via PDDNet.com
"One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other records and climate models, according to a new University of Washington study......more
-via EuroPolitics.info
"The lower chamber of the Czech Parliament announced, on 3 May, that it has given the green light to the transfer to Prague of the administrative headquarters of the agency in charge of managing Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, Galileo.....more
-via TheCuttingEdgeNews.com
"As spring planting goes into high gear in the United States, farmers are going high-tech in order to use less fertilizer, save money and protect the environment. Satellite-based GPS navigation systems are becoming standard on modern farm equipment, helping farmers get the most from their fields....more
-via Boston.com
"Charlie Ergen, the billionaire who controls Dish Network Corp., has a 10-year plan to transform the satellite TV provider into a one-stop shop for Internet access, video and voice services at home and on the go....more
-via CNBC.com
"Satellite broadcaster BSkyB sought to distance itself from the phone hacking controversy on Wednesday after British lawmakers suggested the ties to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp might endanger its licence....more
-via Mashable.com
"The battle between TV Everywhere and online streaming is getting more intense, amidst reports that Hulu will soon require a cable or satellite subscription to access the latest network content.....more
-via SpaceDaily.com
"The Beidou-2 satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, was boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and has entered the scheduled orbit.....more
-via IndiaTimes.com
"Armed with the capability of providing real time data from multiple sites, the dedicated communication satellites for Indian Navy and Air Force will be launched in the next two years, government told the Lok Sabha today.....more
-via NYTimes.com
"The nation’s spies and its military commanders are at odds over the future of America’s spy satellites, a divide that could determine whether the United States government will increasingly rely on its own eyes in the sky or on less costly commercial technology."....more
-via Scanex.ru
"ESA specialists are trying to reestablish communication with the world largest civil RS satellite - ENVISAT. The radio contact with the satellite was suddenly lost on April 8 within the footprint of the Kiruna receiving station (Sweden). "....more
-via DailyBreeze.com
"The U.S. Air Force has terminated a weather satellite program in the South Bay, the military branch said Thursday. Northrop's Aerospace Systems sector in Redondo Beach was the prime contractor for the Defense Weather Satellite System."....more
-via Space.com
"India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with a radar surveillance satellite designed to obtain all-weather, day-and-night ground imagery for national security and environmental applications."....more
-via Nature.com
"NASA and a group of universities known as the READI network have begun testing an earthquake-warning system based on satellite data from the Global Positioning System (GPS). The method could have allowed Japanese officials to issue accurate warnings of the deadly March 2011 earthquake and tsunami ten times faster than they did, say scientists."....more
-via Telegraph.co.uk
"North Korea has vowed to launch satellites "one after another", vigorously rejecting international condemnation of an April 13 launch that was seen overseas as a disguised ballistic missile test."....more
-via SatNews.com
"The Company's second-generation Inmarsat-2 F4 satellite has been switched off just days short of its 20th birthday. The spacecraft was built by a British Aerospace consortium with a projected operational lifespan of 10 years."....more
-via BusinessWeek.com
"The European Space Agency says it has lost contact with its Earth observation satellite Envisat. Efforts to resume communications have been unsuccessful since it fell silent April 8."....more
-via SpatialNews.com
"Remote sensing solutions provider DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has signed a contract with Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) to deliver near real-time satellite imagery to monitor forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest and target illegal logging as it happens."....more
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