On 12 September 2006, BT announced it would shut down satellite operations at Goonhilly in 2008, and move them to Madley Communications Centre in Herefordshire, making that centre BT's only earth station and the biggest in the world.

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

On July 31, the Soviets announced that they intended to launch a satellite by the fall of 1957.

On its first mission, it captured and redeployed the stranded INTELSAT VI communications satellite.

" On Friday, October 4, 1957, the Soviets had orbited the world's first artificial satellite.

* On a planet, natural satellite, or asteroid

On 16 November 2007 Tecom stopped broadcast of two major Pakistani satellite news channels, uplinked from Dubai Media City, which was initially marketed by Tecom under the tagline " Freedom to Create.

On rare occasions, anticyclonic tornadoes form in association with the mesoanticyclone of an anticyclonic supercell, in the same manner as the typical cyclonic tornado, or as a companion tornado either as a satellite tornado or associated with anticyclonic eddies within a supercell.

On a western satellite Hall thrusters were first demonstrated on the Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) STEX spacecraft, which flew the Russian D-55.

On the other hand a good satellite dish looking through the atmosphere into space ( so that it sees a much lower noise temperature ) would have the SNR of a signal degraded by more than 6 dB.

On November 9, 1972, Canada's first geostationary satellite serving the continent, Anik A1, was launched by Telesat Canada, with the United States following suit with the launch of Westar 1 by Western Union on April 13, 1974.

On May 30, 1974, the first geostationary communications satellite in the world to be three-axis stabilized was launched: the experimental satellite ATS-6 built for NASA

On February 10, 2009, Iridium 33 collided with a defunct Russian satellite, Kosmos 2251, 800 km over Siberia.

On March 16, 1955, the United States Air Force officially ordered the development of an advanced reconnaissance satellite to provide continuous surveillance of ' preselected areas of the earth ' in order ' to determine the status of a potential enemy ’ s war-making capability '.

On a satellite dish, the feedhorn is what is mounted at the end of a mast from the center of the dish, or on tripod legs mounted to the edge of the dish.

On Puck, a moon of Uranus, there is a crater named Bogle, in deference to the system of nomenclature on this satellite, whose features are all named after various mischievous spirits.

On October 16, 2006, university president David Johnston announced that the university has entered discussions with the City of Stratford and the Stratford Festival of Canada exploring the possibility of establishing a satellite campus in Stratford.

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, which became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

On September 27, 2012, Dish Network announced that they are releasing a satellite broadband service called DishNet, aimed at rural areas, on October 1st.

On December 28, 1995, EchoStar successfully launched its first satellite, EchoStar I.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On large-area units, where additional structural requirements are imposed, one recent approach utilizes modular extruded or formed channels ( e.g. right-angled corrugations ) of the acrylic or butyrate.

On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.

On higher speed S / 360 models, multiple selector channels, which could operate simultaneously or in parallel, improved overall performance.

On satellites, each transponder normally carries one channel, however small, independent channels can be used on each transponder, with some loss of bandwidth due to the need for guard bands between unrelated transmissions.

) On cable TV, it is possible to use adjacent channels only because they are all at the same power, something which could only be done over the air if the two stations were transmitted at the same power and height from the same location.

On digital platforms, such ( location ) channels are usually arbitrary and changeable, due to virtual channels.

On the bottom of the wakeboard you will see concaves, channels or maybe nothing at all.

On a wakeboard with channels running through the tip and tail, the fins will hook better and the wakeboard will not release as well through the wake.

On the Suitcase model the signal is processed through a " StereoVibrato ", a low-frequency pan oscillation ( actually a tremolo, but Leo Fender insisted on calling it vibrato, like on his amplifiers ) effects unit, which pans the signal back and forth between right and left channels.

On wireless LANs, one can capture traffic on a particular channel, or on several channels when using multiple adapters.

On the Central Plateau, numerous rivers — most of which have dry beds for the greater part of the year — form from snow melting in the mountains during the spring and flow through permanent channels, draining eventually into salt lakes that also tend to dry up during the summer months.

On April 1, 2012, Miramax and Sky Italia, Italy ’ s leading pay TV platform, announced a deal under which that network will air many of the leading titles from Miramax ’ s collection across all of its pay television channels in Italy.

On April 29, EchoStar announced that it would expand its HDTV programming by adding the first 10 of 21 original Voom channels and mirror the channels on a CONUS slot.

On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012 ; the Disney Junior channel ( which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD ) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.

Showtime operates eight multiplex channels and a video on demand service ( Showtime On Demand ).

On April 1, 2010 the remaining Showtime multiplex channels, Showtime Beyond, Showtime Extreme, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women ( as well as The Movie Channel, The Movie Channel Xtra and Flix ) began using on-screen logo bugs during all of their programming.

On UHF 477 MHz, Citizens ' Band PRS radio devices are allowed 5 watts power output on FM on 39 assigned channels spaced at 12. 5-kHz intervals between 477. 0125 MHz and 477. 4875 MHz.

On 1 September 1987 the UK added the usual 40 frequencies ( 26. 965 – 27. 405 MHz ) used worldwide, for a total of 80 channels at 27 MHz ; antenna regulations were further relaxed, and the 934 MHz band was withdrawn in 1998.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).