EchoStar also delivers satellite services through 10 owned and leased in-orbit satellites and related FCC licenses.
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The MUOS constellation is eventually expected to include four next-generation communication satellites and an in-orbit spare.
The first four Galileo satellites comprise the so-called In-Orbit Validation (IOV) phase of the project.
Forward-looking statements include, among others, statements that refer to completion of in-orbit testing, final integration and entry into commercial service.
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: in-orbit test or satellite failures, performance degradation, in-orbit risks and anomalies, or improper orbital placement of ViaSat-1.
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Well, the engineers at SSTL and the University of Surrey think the technology in Kinect could form the basis of a novel in-orbit proximity sensor and docking system.
Not only did the actor, pitchman and onetime Captain Kirk engage an in-orbit astronaut in a Twitter chat, he also joined the more raw world of Reddit and took a stand against what he saw as a culture there that permits a fair amount of racism and bigotry.
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The shuttle did some extraordinary work in low-orbit experiments, the International Space Station, moving cargo.
Nasa is attempting to offload routine human spaceflight operations in low-Earth orbit to commercial industry in a way similar to how some large organisations contract out their IT or payroll.
Their simulations included the effects of eclipses and tidal heating on climate for an earth-twin in orbit around a Jupiter-like gaseous giant planet.
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Nasa astronaut Stan Love knows first-hand the difficulties with technology that his colleagues have experienced on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
ICO's ten satellites fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit and have a life-span of 12 years.
Thagard, the former NASA astronaut, said he was exposed to 120 millisieverts during his 115 days in low-Earth orbit aboard Mir.
ICO's satellites will fly about 9, 000 kilometres higher in medium-earth orbit.
GOES-14 launched in 2009 and was placed in a storage orbit to serve as an in-space spare.
Astronauts generally get about six hours of shut-eye in orbit despite being allowed 8.5.
The Long March 5 will be capable of putting more than 20 tonnes in a low-Earth orbit.
But it remains to be seen how useful an acoustic sensor placed in a low-Earth orbit might be.
The gravity on Eros is very weak , but was still strong enough to hold Near-Shoemaker in orbit for a year.
It's unlikely any aliens call Kepler-37b home: it's thought to be rocky, with no atmosphere, and hugs its sun in a 13-day orbit cycle, meaning surface temperature is terribly high.
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After a million years or so the influence of these large planets, it was thought, caused the fragments to be ejected from the asteroid belt altogether potentially ending up in an Earth-crossing orbit.
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Yet, even roughly Earth-sized planets abound - more recent research suggests that one in six stars has a planet of about Earth's size in an orbit close to their host stars - making for at least 17 billion in our galaxy alone.
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Satellites ordered in the heady mid-1990s reached orbit on the eve of the Asian crisis, leading to a glut in capacity that is now at its peak.
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This 1, 000-kilogram spacecraft will be similar to the two French Pleiades satellites now in orbit, with a 70-centimeter ground resolution in black and white and 2.8 meters in color.
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Dr Krag and colleagues at Esoc, like a number of teams around the world, are now busy modelling the decay in Phobo-Grunt's orbit.
It is in a so-called polar orbit: each turn around Mars takes it over the north and south poles while the planet revolves beneath it.
The company already has two scaled-down versions in orbit.
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That was used to aid in the launch of four experimental satellites over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the last of which was the first satellite to fly in the GPS 12-hour orbit and the first transmit GPS signals.
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Dr Murray stressed there was no direct evidence these stars did have Earth-sized planets in orbit about them, but modelling had shown that if sufficient terrestrial material existed in a system it would eventually clump together into bodies as big as the Earth.
The asteroid orbits the Sun in 368 days - a period similar to Earth's year - but it does not orbit in the same plane as the Earth.
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