That is because it is designed to act as a relay station for signals from subsequent missions.

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The company no longer runs a TV relay station, or schools (both primary and secondary levels), hospitals, and guesthouses at each of the islands where it operates.

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The hope was that this would restore brain cell activity in the thalamus, a relay station that integrates input from many parts of the brain, helping make consciousness possible.

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Far from being an anachronistic irrelevancy in the so-called post-Cold War world, the Israel relay station has an important role to play in the further evolution of that world.

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The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.

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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

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He also was an avid supporter of the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, representing the organization as a Youth Survivor in 2012 and working at an annual WCRK radio station fundraiser for the organization.

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