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ICO's ten satellites, made by Hughes Electronics, are eight times more powerful, and will be able to provide coverage that is at least as good as Iridium's 66-strong constellation and the 48 of Globalstar.
ECONOMIST: Staying in touch
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Like the U.S.S. Constellation, an elegant 19th-century wood-hulled warship moored in the nearby harbor, the old investment firm was once written off as a relic.
FORBES: Price Is Right
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Recent offerings include Smashed Grapes and Monkey Bay from Constellation Wines U.S., a division of publicly held Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ).
FORBES: Not-So-Fine Wine
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"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ).
FORBES: Quality vs Quantity
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The most obvious one was the cancellation earlier this year of NASA's Constellation program, which was intended to provide a "man-rated" expendable rocket to replace the shuttle as America's means of putting humans into space.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to space
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He piggybacks this unit directly on top of a scope, allowing him to produce never-before-captured wide-field images, like his striking, ghostly picture of Barnard's Loop-a huge arc of gas that covers the length of the constellation Orion.
FORBES: A Star Is Born
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Regardless of how effective the filters might be, the idea that the only thing standing between a functional GPS system and a constellation of space-borne paperweights is a private company's privately-developed, privately-operated filtering equipment... but then again, we love LTE.
ENGADGET: US Air Force raises concerns over LightSquared's LTE network messing with GPS
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The most famous example is the Constellation, a 200-foot schooner which was writer Peter Benchley's inspiration for the book The Deep.
BBC: Wreck diving in Bermuda
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The application ultimately led to the creation of GPS, a constellation of two-dozen satellites developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense.
FORBES: Creating a Culture of Innovation at the World Bank
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The city has always drawn visitors with its constellation of civic monuments and world-class museums, including the Smithsonian's nearly decade-old National Museum of the American Indian (which, incidentally, has one of the best museum cafes anywhere).
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