But if Kim has spent millions on a song-singing satellite while his country is starving, he will retain his position as one of the world's most unpredictable leaders.
The GOES-13 satellite, which is also known as GOES East, launched into space in 2006 and was responsible for tracking weather systems across the eastern United States while another GOES satellite monitored the country's western regions, according to NASA records.
To handle the flow, Kado has opened about 90 satellite centers around the country in places like post offices.
And this in a country where satellite dishes have always been technically illegal, though openly tolerated in East Malaysia.
But the channel is still beamed into the country by satellite.
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.
Gross, 63, was convicted in Cuba of trying to subvert the government after he was arrested for bringing banned satellite communications equipment into the country.
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The Chinese government initially turned a blind eye to the fact that the hugely popular Phoenix was being illegally aired on black-market satellite dishes all over the country and even to its reporting politically sensitive news because its slick coverage of state affairs made China's leaders look good.
India's space program began in the 1970s, and the country launched its first satellite in 1983.
Earlier this week, Ergen announced that if the merger is approved, his firm would offer local TV channels via satellite to every part of the country.
Prior to China's laser and ASAT weapons tests, the Bush administration was preparing to introduce revisions to the existing National Space Policy to address increasing threats to the country's critical satellite system.
Traceroutes into Cuba through the new Telefonica path show markedly lower latencies than the Caribbean country's existing satellite-reliant connections, hinting that the cable has been flipped on -- at least in one direction.
The country has used its satellite states of Syria, Sudan and Qatar, as well as its burgeoning alliances with Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and elsewhere, to legitimize its rapidly escalating assaults on Sunni regimes throughout the region.
Telecom regulator Ofcom announced Wednesday that British Sky Broadcasting, the country's biggest satellite broadcaster and main broadcast partner for the English Premier League, must offer its main sports channels, Sky Sports 1 and 2, to other cable, Internet and terrestrial channels at cheaper wholesale prices.
The country has plans for better satellite communications, broadcasting facilities, weather forecasting and Earth observation missions all of which will have a dual civilian and military role, but none of which need be manned.
The Asian country is also deploying its own satellite-navigation system known as BeiDou, or Compass.
On Feb. 2, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proudly announced that his country had successfully launched its first satellite.
MRS. OBAMA: Okay, I'm looking at the satellite screen, and he is over the country of Ukraine.
This time, a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit after lifting away from the country's Plesetsk spaceport.
Once all the dishes in one country are pointing at a particular satellite, they are likely to stay that way, and others have little chance of breaking into the market.
The country said Friday the rocket is a satellite-carrying vehicle, but adversaries widely believe it is a missile being tested in a disguised attempt to advance its military capability.
Sunday's order from the Communications and Media Commission includes the Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera and eight outlets aimed at the country's Sunni Arab minority.
Not only has he refused repeated requests from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the site, commercial satellite imagery has exposed four other illicit nuclear sites in the country.
British Sky Broadcasting, the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
The rocket would be launched from the Solace Satellite Launching Station in Cholsan county, North Pyongyang province on the country's west coast.
The rocket would be launched from the Solace Satellite Launching Station in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province on the country's west coast.
The show has Afghans all over the world, via satellite television, riveted every Thursday and Friday night, reconnecting them to the country's long history of poetic and musical artistry after three decades of warfare.
Kim Seung-jo, South Korea's chief space official, told reporters that his country should be able to independently produce a rocket capable of putting a satellite into orbit by as early as 2018.
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