CURRENT NEWS! -- April 14th 2009 -- Moving On Up @ Orbital Sciences... General Hamel (USAF, Ret) Joins Company <> A New Dawn For Arianespace <> Galaxy Broadband Says Encore to Bandits In Space <> Cassini's Crater Contemplation <> Multiplatform Programmers Set to Soar <> SWE-DISH SATCOMs Satisfy <> digiGO! — NAB: International Datacasting Bringing Everything But The Kitchen Sink <> Disasters Receive Help In Many Formats — Enter TSF <> Here's Looking @ Earth: Lava + Ash Sally Forth From La Cumbre Volcano <> MLB Network Doubles Down The Line With Saturday Night Package <> China's Aerospace Science and Technology Gobbles China Satellite Communications <> Choppers Working With Blue Sky <> Intelsat Liberates Liberty Sports Group <> Batter-Up! Intelsat Hits a Home Run <> Nice Timing for Spike <> Crawford's New Asian Connections <> Stellar STEREO Study Of Moon's Origins To Start Soon <> Trio Of Launch Vehicles Now Residing At Spaceport In French Guiana <> SatLink Signals Snag Sub Saharan Customers <> FCC Approves Transfer Of DirecTV Satellite, Earth Station Licenses To Liberty Entertainment <> digiGO! NAB — Harris Speaks Out <> Colem Gets Smart With Wireless Intelligent Button Control <> This Cassini Image Is Definitely An Award Winner <> A Most Energetic Spatial Croissant <> More Programming: DIRECTV Adds ION West; CNN Sets Spin <> AEHF Thermally Vacuumed By Lockheed Martin <> James Webb Telescope Gets A Cold Reception At Marshall Space Flight Center <> MakaLani's Mahalo Nui Loa <> VSAT Victory For Globecomm <> NFL Network Remains On Dish's Classic Silver 200 Package After Settlement <> Qual-Pro Protégé Picked For DoD's Nunn-Perry Award <> San Diego Is Host Location For ISCe 2009 <> Moving On Up . . .at AGI <> Northrop Grumman Brings UAVs and More To Latin American Show <> Newspapers Continue Downward Slide <> UAVs To Become Wind Warriors With Vortex 2 Tornado Study <> Hours + Hours Of ISR Success With ScanEagle UAS <> digiGO! — NAB SuperStops: ATEME, Annova Systems, ATEME, Bright Systems, Camera Corps, Cinergy, Dimetis, EyeHeight, FOR-A, Fujitsu, Globecast, Latens, Lawo, Nagravision, Omnia, OMVC, Pixel Power, Rohde & Schwarz, SGT, SintecMedia, Telairity, Telos, Triveni Digital, WEGENER, WTA <> digiGO! — NAB Surround Yourself With Sound Made Easier By Linear Acoustic and Cobalt Digital <> DirecTV Offers Ion West Feed <> digiGO! — NAB: Wegener Into Localization <> digiGO! NAB: Rohde & Schwarz Doing Demos <> Nagravision's PayTV Solutions For SatOps + More... <> digiGO! — NAB: ATEME's Content Beliefs <> Satellite Operators Could Benefit From Loosened Cuban Restrictions <> digiGO! — NAB: Annova Systems Links Media Creation <> digiGO! — Moving Content With Alacrity Is An Artel Goal <> Low Bit Rates In New SD Encoders From Telairity <> Intelsat, Liberty Sports Group Connect On Distribution Pact

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