Cubans currently rely on satellite connections - which are expensive and slow - to get online.
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But the examples of successful north African uprisings, seen on satellite television, are changing the dynamic.
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Back in our hotel room, we indulged ourselves in American movies on satellite TV until well after midnight.
It will offer 24-hour infotainment channels on satellite in different Southeast Asian countries.
Many of the rural branches of South Africa's Standard Bank rely on satellite transmission, diesel generators and solar power.
Television sets and VCRs were banned, depriving Kabulis of one of their few pleasures - watching Indian movies on satellite television.
Coming soon: synthetic-vision technology that draws on satellite signals to create 3-D images of the terrain, no matter what the weather.
If cable operators dive into wireless, that will put more pressure on satellite TV providers, their other major competitors, to do the same.
News Corporation has spent enormous amounts of money and energy over the years on satellite-television platforms in America, Britain, Italy and Latin America.
The BBC's HD channel has been running test transmissions on satellite and cable since last year, showing such programmes as Bleak House and Silent Witness.
And we met at a conference on satellite and humanitarian endeavors.
By 2007 Johnson was ready to pull the plug on satellite, selling residual frequencies for a good price (how much he is contractually barred from saying).
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It is highly unlikely that North Korea will give access to the investigators, so the panel will have to rely on satellite imagery and testimony from defectors.
According to Mark Matney of Lockheed-Martin, who works at the Orbital Debris Programme Office at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, shielding is an increasing influence on satellite design.
Recognizing that Arab and Muslim audiences rely on satellite television and radio, the government has begun some promising initiatives in television and radio broadcasting to the Arab world, Iran, and Afghanistan.
The remaining 1-2% will have to rely on satellite.
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Shlomo Angel, an urban planning expert at New York University, gathered historical and census data from hundreds of cities, digitised thousands of maps and had computers count millions of pixels on satellite pictures.
But I do believe that when the initial estimates came that there were -- it was 5, 000 barrels spilling into the ocean per day, that was based on satellite imagery and satellite data that would give a rough calculation.
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Despite this, the main radio stations will still be broadcast on FM and medium wave as usual while the digital stations - such as 1 Extra and BBC7 - will still be available on satellite, cable, through digital radios and online.
Sky also works with dozens of other broadcasters on the satellite platform, online and on mobile.
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In April, China launched its first tracking data relay satellite to lessen its dependency on ground satellite control and relay stations.
But sources on the ground said peasants are now cultivating very small fields to avoid the attention of the spraying aircraft, and many of these are too small to appear on the satellite imagery the UN based its report on.
These days, I contribute stories to the New York Times, Chicago Medicine magazine and teach writing at Loyola University Chicago and you can hear me on XM Satellite's ReachMD or in Chicago on CBS' WBBM newsradio or see me on PBS affiliate WTTW's Chicago Tonight television public affairs program.
The satellite launched by Seoul is designed to analyze weather data, measure radiation in space, gauges distances on earth and test how effectively South Korean-made devices installed on the satellite operate in space.
Our ability to conduct intelligence around the world is based on our satellite capabilities.
And I checked the stats on the satellite school, and the acceptance rating there is some 99 percent.
Right now, I am looking at the tracker and I can see a dot on the satellite screen.
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