• Sky adds more HD movie channels • 2008/08/19
Sky is to add a total of seven new high definition channels to its Sky+ HD service in October, the broadcaster confirmed today. Joining Sky Real Lives HD will be Sky Movies Action/Thriller HD, Sky Mo ...
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• NASA Seeks Input For Commercial Lunar Communications And Navigation • 2008/08/19
NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the developme ...
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• Transponder news 20.08.2008 • 2008/08/19
 Sirius 4, 4.8°E '2T' and 'KiKo' have started on 12736V (Europe FSS beam), MPEG-4/clear, SR 6150, FEC 3/4. (Webmaster, 13:11 CET) ... ...
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• BBC Alba launch date set • 2008/08/19
BBC Alba, a new Gaelic-language digital television service for Scotland, will launch next month. Test transmissions for the service, a partnership between the Gaelic Media Service and the BBC, began ...
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• Transponder news 19.08.2008 • 2008/08/19
Thaicom 5, 78.5°E 'God TV Australasia' has left 3640H. (LyngSat, 16:21 CET) New mux with 'BVN TV' and 'God TV Australasia' has started on 3450H (global beam), clear, SR ...
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• New Milky Way Map Reveals A Complicated Outer Galaxy • 2008/08/16
The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). While th ...
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• Transponder news 17.08.2008 • 2008/08/16
Intelsat 12, 45.0°E 'Novy Illusion' has started on 11550V (Europe beam), clear, SR 27500, FEC 7/8. (Bilberry, 22:27 CET) 'TDK' is now encrypted in Irdeto 2 on 11550V (Europe beam) ...
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• The Stuff Of Life On Titan • 2008/08/16
For almost thirty years, scientists have known that complex carbon compounds called tholins exist on comets and in the atmospheres of the outer planets. Theoretically, tholins might interact with wate ...
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• Transponder news 16.08.2008 • 2008/08/16
Express AM 3, 140.0°E 'HeliosNet' internet service has left 11469V. (HeliosNet, 21:22 CET) 'HeliosNet' internet service has started on 11475V (Ku-band beam), SR 22425, FEC 3/4. (H ...
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• Intelsat Expands Capacity For NPR • 2008/08/14
Intelsat has announced that NPR (National Public Radio) signed a multi-transponder, multi-year contract renewal for satellite capacity to support the distribution of public radio programming across th ...
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• PSI Director Promotes 13-Planet Solar System • 2008/08/14
Mark Sykes says that if a non-stellar object is massive enough to be round and orbits a star, it ought to be a planet. The key here is that once an object gets that big, important geophysical processe ...
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• Star Trek-like 'warp drive' theorized • 2008/08/12
U.S. scientists say they've developed a theory that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light without breaking the laws of physics. Baylor University Associate Professor ...
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• Transponder news 12.08.2008 • 2008/08/12
Express AM 22, 53.0°E 'Perviy kanal CIS' has started on 11044V (Wide Europe beam), clear, SR 44950, FEC 3/4. (perfect, Steve, tv.tut.by, 00:14 CET) Eurobird 9, 9.0°E The &# ...
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• Perchlorate salts: a major find on Mars • 2008/08/07
U.S. space agency scientists say the discovery of perchlorate salts on Mars makes them reassess how they think about possible Martian life. Scientists involved with the Phoenix Mars Lander mission met ...
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• Transponder news 07.08.2008 • 2008/08/07
Express AM 2, 80.0°E 'Universal Channel Russia' has started on 11044H (Ku-band beam), Irdeto 2, SR 44950, FEC 5/6. (light, Steve, A.Antonov, 23:57 CET) 'Sci-Fi Russia' has started ...
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• Freesat: "Exciting future" for British HD • 2008/08/05
Freesat managing director Emma Scott has said that BBC HD's extensive coverage of the Beijing Olympics points to "an exciting future" for high definition broadcasting in the UK. BBC HD ...
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• About Water On Mars, The Origins Of Life And The Future Of Earth • 2008/08/05
"Martian water has been touched and tasted" by NASA's Phoenix lander spacecraft, which has identified water in a sample of soil collected from Mars. This will expand our so far fragment ...
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• Transponder news 05.08.2008 • 2008/08/05
Express AM 33, 96.5°E 'GTRK Kuzbass' has started on 11022H (Ku-band East beam), clear, SR 5700, FEC 3/4. (sanbond, 23:11 CET) 'GTRK Tomsk', 'Radio Rossii' and 'Radi ...
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• Satgate Contracts Four Transponders At New SES ASTRA Orbital Position • 2008/08/05
SES ASTRA has announced that, via its Nordic affiliate SES SIRIUS, it has contracted four transponders on its new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to the Lithuanian satellite services provider Sa ...
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• Network DVRs not illegal, rules court • 2008/08/05
Cable operators are to be allowed to offer "network DVR" services - where digital video recorder functionality such as recording and playing back programmes on demand may be provided using n ...
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