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ESA to Give New Life to Old Satellites
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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God damn, you're as stupid as the pussy Europeans, aren't you? Ricochet is a short-range Rx/Tx medium intended for transmission over distances no further than a mile. The network is built on the concept of antennas on utility poles packed far more densely than, say, cellular towers, let alone a fucking satellite.
Take your idiocy, homosexuality and policy of appeasement toward aggression elsewhere, Eurofag.
You posted this:
Care for a few pointers? George W. Bush, 1978-84: senior executive, Arbusto Energy/Bush Exploration, an oil company; 1986-90: senior executive of the Harken oil company. Dick Cheney, 1995-2000: chief executive of the Halliburton oil company. Condoleezza Rice, 1991-2000: senior executive with the Chevron oil company, which named an oil tanker after her.
Watch it, feds are coming after you soon !! And you thought you lived in a free country !!
Why are the French and Germans such socialist pussies? I think we'll have to go kick the shit out of those cunts after we get done with Saddam.
Eurobitches are weak and poor. HAHA!
Sounds like a typical Kalifornia tree hugging hippie fagboy