The aircraft's transponder, which identifies the plane and relays details such as altitude and speed to controllers, stopped transmitting.
These new customers push up the revenues satellite operators get from each transponder by around 50%.
Mandell is still wearing a monitoring ankle bracelet as well as a GPS transponder that tracks his every move.
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One or two channels had their own transponder capacity on Astra satellites, but Sky quickly mopped up what was left.
The satellite also contains a "search and rescue" transponder that will allow it to relay distress signals from emergency beacons.
Placing a transponder on an asteroid would enable scientists to closely track the asteroid wherever it may be in its orbit via telescopes and radar from earth.
When DirecTV subscribers started to receive a signal from transponder 11 on Wednesday, many hoped the HD channels would start cropping up, but so far, no luck.
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Miles on limited-access facilities, clocked via transponder, would cost more perhaps 3 to 4 cents a mile, to fully cover the cost of reconstructing and maintaining those premium facilities.
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The old system works by monitoring the transponder signal emitted by most planes and kicks in seconds before a midair crash, ordering one jet to pull up and the other to pull down.
The head of the joint venture that oversees Farsi1 said it had experienced interference when its signal was located near BBC Persian or near other news channels, but this subsided after it moved to a different transponder.
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