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Satellites: North America
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In Satellites, a thirtysomething interracial couple with a six-week-old baby moves to an unrenovated brownstone in a gentrifying Brookyn neighborhood. Nina (Sandra Oh) is a Korean-American architect who runs a tiny firm with Kit (Johanna Day). Nina's husband, Miles (Kevin Carroll), is an African-American "computer guy" who has recently left his full-time job. Nina and Kit will use the basement as their office, and the top floor will be rented out to a tenant. It sounds like an idyllic situation: an attractive, smart young couple finds a big townhouse in an up-and-coming neighborhood. What could go wrong?
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KA-SAT marks a material step forward in multi-spot satellites, which are already demonstrating their efficiency for consumer Internet access, HDTV and local television broadcasting in hard-to-serve areas in North America. In particular, first-generation multi-spot satellites using ViaSat SurfBeam(R) DOCSIS(R) technology and operated by WildBlue and Telesat have already reached over 300,000 Internet subscribers since their launch in 2005. As a standard used by several tens of millions of cable customers worldwide, DOCSIS, together with powerful new Ka-band multi-spot satellites can facilitate important economies of scale to enable satellite-based consumer Internet services to achieve costs and bandwidth comparable to ADSL.
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Just as U.S. satellites kept track of things like the wheat harvest in the former Soviet Union, other countries have ... launched satellites to monitor American crops. Germany, France and others have satellites monitoring crop conditions, and many other private firms sell those images in the U.S.
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