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10 That Do It Right

Since we’ve been doing this for four years now, you might say we finally have our own “Top 40″ list of hit-makers. But as we observe annually in this space, we are not honoring what we’d call the Ten Best newspapers but ten papers that have made great strides, and can serve as a model, [...]

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A Poll Model for Comics Sections?

There are comics polls, and then there are comics polls. The latter is what The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press is conducting this Sunday, Dec. 7.
The Press will publish a 12-page section featuring two or three samples of 73 different comics — 33 of which the newspaper now carries, and 40 of which it doesn’t. There [...]

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Shoptalk: A Thinning Market

Like many people who spent their careers putting mostly black ink on white paper so it could be thrown on people’s porches at 5 a.m., I have been worrying about the future of newspapers. Most of the content newspapers provide is available free online and many of our best advertisers have found they can reach [...]

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Satellite Communications

Perhaps nothing distinguishes Man from all other creatures as much as his ability and his desire to communicate. Satellite technology, in a few short decades, has radically revolutionized how we communicate.
Making connections
When, in 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke published an article in the magazine ‘Wireless World’ describing the possibility of a global communications [...]

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Telecommunications services to Latin America

Launched in August 2004, Amazonas-1 offers a wide range of telecommunications services to users in Latin America, including Brazil and North America, including the transatlantic route to Europe.
The Amazonas satellite for Latin America is the fifth launched by Hispasat and the third in a series of Astrium Eurostar E3000. Placed in geostationary orbit at 61 [...]

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The Skynet 5 Private Finance Initiative

The UK MoD’s Skynet 5 program is delivering secure global satellite communications services under a groundbreaking Private Finance Initiative (PFI) approach pioneered by Astrium Services’ subsidiary Paradigm, the first commercial provider of secure military communications services. Under the contract, signed in 2003, the MoD transferred ownership and operation of the existing Skynet 4 infrastructure to [...]

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Astrium allows growth of the protein on the ISS

After the successful launch of the satellite Earth observation last week GOCE, Astrium engineers can now add one more success to their charts. This is aboard the space laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station (ISS) that the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery have installed and put into service the instrument of experimentation PCDF (Protein [...]

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NAVCOM Technology Inc. becomes a partner of Astrium Services

NAVCOM Technology Inc., 100% subsidiary of Deere & Company, and Astrium Services, Division of Astrium, has signed a strategic partnership to provide solutions for ultra precise geopositioning throughout the Europe.

Solutions for ultra precise geopositioning for Europe

Decimetre precision through the Starfire’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)

Under this new alliance, Astrium Services will become the exclusive European [...]

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The GIOVE-B satellite system Galileo celebrates its first year in orbit

The satellite navigation GIOVE-B successfully completes its first year in orbit. Manufactured by an industrial team led by Astrium under contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), GIOVE-B is the second mission in orbit demonstration dedicated to the European Galileo satellite navigation.

Astrium demonstration of technical feasibility of Galileo

Measures over the long term signal quality

The atomic [...]