Missouri's Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, was present at the first shovel turning and the state paid for a satellite truck to beam images of the ceremony to every resident of the state who wanted to see it.
Fortunately, Congress returned the satellite licensing authority to the State Department from the Commerce Department.
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In a separate development on Monday, the leading European satellite provider Eutelsat took 19 Iranian state-run television and radio channels off air on Monday, citing "reinforced EU Council sanctions".
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
Mato Grosso state has pioneered the use of satellite-mapping to enforce a law that obliges Amazonia's landowners to leave 80% of forested land untouched.
With 19 state-of-the-art satellite dishes, the faith-based and family-themed broadcaster can download more than 50 cable-television channels and deliver them potentially to hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide.
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The pan-Arab satellite television networks -- so different from the sclerotic state broadcasters -- gave Arabs a new window on the world.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT).
You remember seeing the satellite how big that storm was and how close it was to the state of Florida?
The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.
Under a fifth of Egyptians now get their news from state television, while more than half follow the al-Jazeera satellite channel (whose crews were repeatedly harassed during the election).
Robert Twiggs, formerly from Stanford but now at Morehead State University in Kentucky is one of the fathers of the small cheap satellite.
Before 1999, when the State Department took over the export regulation of satellites, America dominated commercial satellite-making with an average market share of 83%.
The results were reached via global positioning satellite measurements taken before and after the February 27 quake by teams from The Ohio State University, the University of Hawaii, the University of Memphis and the California Institute of Technology, as well as agencies across South America.
The five POWs -- members of the 507th Maintenance Company, based at Fort Bliss, Texas -- were interviewed in a video from Iraqi state-run television broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network based in Qatar.
"I am deeply disappointed that the governor has decided to abandon the state and her constituents before her term has concluded, " the Republican said via satellite phone from interior Alaska, her office said.
The hottest market is India, where the combination of a staid state broadcaster with a free-to-air monopoly and fierce competition among cable and satellite companies has boosted pay-TV.
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