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ESA to Give New Life to Old Satellites

Posted by chrisd on from the space-is-still-pretty-cool dept.

JPNews writes "The European Space Agency is designing a program (www.esa.int) to re-configure dying television transmission satellites to be used as a XM Radio-like satellite radio network. 'Once in position, 35,000 km away in space, TV satellites will remain in orbit forever, but their useful life amounts to 15 years or less... further life can be squeezed from a low-propellant TV satellite switched over to mobile digital radio broadcasting where precision position control is less important.'"

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  1. Food for Thought by pegasustonans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "ESA, BSA, GBA... They're all in the same alphabet soup..." we all know it's just part of the conspiracy to nab George Kaplan...

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    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
  2. Re:Dear Apple, fix me by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer.

    Hey, whatever floats your boat buddy. I'm not gay, I just use Macs because they're cool.

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    I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
  3. Re:Hey Asshat by coupland · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    While I realize you're just being a dick I've got to ask why you picked me for such an ignorant post. I'm the typical Irish-English moronic imigrant (as you so eloquently illustrate and personify) so I don't know why your anti-black comments are directed at me. If you're going to post ignorant insults like that shouldn't you at least know who you're talking to?