They sold satellite dishes door-to-door in Colorado in the 1980s, building a satellite company called EchoStar.
The president, Olusegun Obasanjo, wants to launch a second, for television and telephone communications, and hopes eventually to see Nigerian engineers building a satellite in Nigeria.
One of the most hyped additions to iOS 6 has been the Maps application, which includes Siri navigation, 3D building view and satellite imagery.
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Building a geostationary satellite that can monitor such emissions for many years is very challenging, and the existing constellation therefore was designed to do just that.
Take the arguments for building an expensive EU satellite navigation system, Galileo.
The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge wind farms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C.
The ability to refuel satellites in space could one day save satellite operators from the significant costs of building and launching new replacement satellites.
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The cameras are being built by UK based Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), who is a world leader in building cameras for aerospace and satellite purposes.
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B4U is a pure content business, which rents space on cable and satellite networks around the world, rather than building its own.
Falcone explained he was buying up spectrum anywhere he could and was building a 4G terrestrial network with a satellite overlay.
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The burgeoning commercial space sector is also casting its gaze towards Earth's only natural satellite with companies considering everything from mining the lunar surface to building extraterrestrial resorts on it.
Mr. Saba tells of being called to a technical meeting in the imposing limestone building on London's Strand that houses the BBC satellite monitoring center.
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Peace Now is using satellite photos to track the growth of settlements and to show where building is going on without permits or in defiance of court orders to stop.
The U.S. Central Command said a Tomahawk cruise missile struck Iraq's national television building, a key telecom vault and a group of buildings housing Baghdad satellite communications.
Much of that investment will go toward converting shows into digital cable format, building an ad sales division and paying to beam programming cross-country by satellite.
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