Russia suspects the operation was a cover to test anti-satellite technology under the US missile defence programme.
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"The basic mission is to improve the lot of underprivileged people through information and education using satellite technology, " D.
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Matt Perkins, of Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) where Mr al-Hilli worked, issued a statement following official confirmation of his death.
For rural users, mobile broadband is a much more cost-effective option to build, whether via cellular or satellite technology or both.
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Now, activists have a new weapon in the fight - satellite technology.
Over the next three years, such video satellite technology should improve fast.
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He told MPs British satellite technology played a greater role than is realised in "ensuring we have information about the sites of disasters".
Both the U.S. and Soviet Union tested anti-satellite technology in the 1980's, and the U.S. even shot down one of its orbiting satellites in 1985.
But satellite technology has advanced, and is being put to use.
Similar satellite technology was used on the Pacific species of walruses, not considered endangered, but never on the Atlantic species, which is considered rare and threatened.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), based in Guildford, England, is teaming up with Nasa to show that standard internet protocols can be used to communicate with spacecraft.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
Now, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is looking to launch a satellite into orbit and use a 'droid -- much smaller than the Astromech variety -- to control said satellite.
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Weighing 4.3 kg (9.5lbs) and measuring 10cm by 30cm (4in by 12in), the satellite has been developed by the University of Surrey's Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL).
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Adam Baker of Surrey Satellite Technology, a British firm, knows a great deal about the economics of launching the kind of small satellites that Virgin's system might put into orbit.
Makers hope the yacht will be a keen sailor's mega mansion on water, with room for offices kitted out with the latest in satellite technology and a classroom for the children.
One way: installing satellite technology in its road graders.
And a number of different estimates could be produced depending what software is used to model the satellite's decay, explained Dr Eves, who is lead mission concept engineer at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL).
Washington conference on commercial remote sensing satellite technology.
Mr Hardcastle, of consultants Kellogg Brown and Root, said the main recommendation was for an "area-wide" charging scheme which would use satellite technology to monitor the journeys of all motorists and charge them per mile.
The 1970 World Cup in Mexico was a technicolored spectacle, brought live to millions of television screens by satellite technology and featuring a virtuoso performance by a Brazilian team considered the greatest in football history.
The latest installment in this story is the versatile P-8A patrol plane developed for the Navy from the 737 airframe, and the high-capacity Wideband Global Satcom system developed for the Air Force from commercial satellite technology.
While key manufacturing technologies might be protected, it would be foolish to believe that this arrangement will not give rise to significant compromises in a number of areas of satellite technology in which the United States currently predominates.
Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.
Google's Nexus One has dreamt of space travel for a while now, but on Monday it was finally launched into orbit aboard a CubeSat dubbed STRaND-1, which was developed by Surrey Satellite Technology and the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre.
The satellite, called Science and Technology Satellite-2C, is designed to collect climate data.
Gogo says it plans to transition to satellite-based technology and provide international coverage beyond North America.
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