In a move to convert the platform to DBS, PrimeStar bid for the 110-degree satellite location that was eventually awarded to a never-launched direct broadcast satellite service by MCI and News Corporation called ASkyB.

The company that was awarded the 110-degree slot, ASkyB, eventually became defunct and the license for the 110-degree satellite location was resold to EchoStar, the parent company of DISH Network.

The radar is scanned both mechanically and electronically and can track up to six targets within the same 110-degree arc in course tracking mode.

He had forced landings in airplanes while he was in the Marines, and while he was stationed at Quantico, was very sick, lying in the hospital with " a 110-degree fever.

It's not a science as involved as determining what makes the earth rotate on its axis or building a rocket or putting a satellite into orbit but it is, nevertheless, a science.

It is clear from this discussion that cosmologists of every persuasion look hopefully toward the day when a man-made satellite can be equipped with optical devices which will open up new vistas to science.

* 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

* 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.

Dutch First Division club Telstar is an official satellite club of AZ.

* 1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch ; as it re-enters the atmosphere, of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.

* 1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.

If a planet is found to rotate slower than expected, then astronomers suspect that the planet is accompanied by a satellite, because the total angular momentum is shared between the planet and its satellite in order to be conserved.

The implementation of the Convention is managed through an international Commission headquartered in Hobart, Australia by an efficient system of annual fishing quotas, licenses and international inspectors on the fishing vessels, as well as satellite surveillance.

According to the Hipparcos satellite, Arcturus is 36. 7 light years ( 11. 3 parsecs ) from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms.

Originally the teachers communicated with the children via radio, but now satellite telecommunication is used instead.

It is not advisable to travel into these especially remote areas with a single vehicle, unless fully equipped with good communication technology ( e. g. a satellite phone, EPIRB etc .).

In data transmission systems a byte is defined as a contiguous sequence of binary bits in a serial data stream, such as in modem or satellite communications, which is the smallest meaningful unit of data.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

It is known that tests were undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, Liberia, in South Korea, and in Japan ’ s satellite province of Okinawa in 1961, or earlier.

The House is even shown live on satellite television, although in some countries, with a 10-15 minute delay to allow libelous or unacceptable content ( such as references to people who are not taking part in the program and have therefore not consented to have personal information about them broadcast ) to be removed.

* Parasitic cone ( or satellite cone ) is a geographical feature found around a volcano

As Grey's Anatomy is on ABC, but is carried in Canada on CTV at the same time, for instance, the cable, satellite, or other broadcast distributor must send the CTV feed over the signal of the carried ABC affiliate, even where the ABC version is somehow different, particularly commercials.

In addition to radar and lightning detection, observations and extended radar pictures ( such as NEXRAD ) are now available through satellite data connections, allowing pilots to see weather conditions far beyond the range of their own in-flight systems.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.

With evidence in hand from both the Corona satellite and Navy Reconnaissance aircraft, at the beginning of October the administration decided it was now worth risking U-2 flights over Cuba.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

The following year, a conference was held in which all of the European powers except Austria-Hungary ( by now little more than a German satellite ) sided with France.

* South Jakarta ( Jakarta Selatan ), originally planned as a satellite city, is now the location of large upscale shopping centres and affluent residential areas.

intercity by landline, microwave radio relay and satellite communication ( KazSat ); number of fixed-line connections is gradually increasing and fixed-line teledensity is about 20 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage is increasing rapidly and subscriptions now exceed 50 per 100 persons

* the Mars Gravity Biosatellite-a program to design, build, and launch a satellite rotated to artificially provide partial gravity of 0. 38g, equivalent to that of Mars, and hosting a small population of mice, to study the health effects of partial gravity, as opposed to zero gravity ; this originated as a Mars Society initiative and is now supported by the YourNameIntoSpace web portal

Microwave and satellite transmissions were soon introduced and have now become common.

Thailand-based Shinawatra Computer and Communications Co. Ltd. ( now Shin Corporation ) signed a US $ 100 million contract with Hughes Space and Communications Company Ltd. in 1991 to launch Thailand's first satellite communications project.

This became the Goonhilly satellite earth station, now owned by BT Group plc.

There are many satellite links too, but these now provide a relatively small part of the international bandwidth.

Space Systems / Loral, an American commercial satellite manufacturer, now flies Fakel SPT-100's on their GEO communications spacecraft.

Hall thrusters are now routinely flown on commercial GEO communications satellite where they are used for orbit insertion and stationkeeping.

Although many populated land locations on the planet now have terrestrial communications facilities ( microwave, fiber-optic ), even undersea, with more than sufficient capacity, telephony and Internet access is still available only via satellite in many places in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as isolated locations that have no terrestrial facilities, such as Canada's Arctic islands, Antarctica, the far reaches of Alaska and Greenland, and ships at sea.

It was Satcom 1 that was instrumental in helping early cable TV channels such as WTBS ( now TBS Superstation ), HBO, CBN ( now ABC Family ), and The Weather Channel become successful, because these channels distributed their programming to all of the local cable TV headends using the satellite.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

However, the network's parent company owns the Fox News Channel, which was launched in 1996 and is now available through virtually all cable and satellite providers in the United States.

Fox is the only commercial television network ( broadcast, cable or satellite ) to air programs in widescreen on its digital feed that are not available in HD ; programs produced in this format were identified as being presented in " Fox High Resolution Widescreen " from 2001 to 2006, but are currently unbranded, and are now confined solely to select reality programming.

Since late July 2010, when Fox began to broadcast their sports programming with graphics optimized for 16: 9 displays rather than the 4: 3 safe area, the network has asked cable and satellite providers to comply and use the No. 10 Active Format Description code they now send out over Fox programming, which has 16: 9 content display in letterboxed mode on 4: 3 screens and has graphical elements optimized for the 16: 9 screen.

Although decommissioned by NASA in 2003, the NFAC is now being operated by the United States Air Force as a satellite facility of the Arnold Engineering Development Center ( AEDC ).

The former Garda ( Police ) station in West Street is now a satellite site of the Droichead Arts Centre.