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Featured Articles » DigitalGlobe to Acquire GeoEye » ATK Promotes Fast-Build Small Satellites » Suborbital Launch Firms Make Steady Progress » MTN Selects Intelsat EpicNG Broadband Connectivity   Sponsored By: AT&T WEBINAR: Maximizing Machine Uptime and Delivering Value for Manufacturers with Connected Products Tuesday August 14, 2012 TIME: 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Join AT&T and Axeda for this Webinar to learn how you can maximize machine uptime and deliver greater value with connected products. What Attendees will learn: Best practices from real-world customer case study examples Connecting to machines, managing the data, and achieving innovation Preserving security and achieving scalability as end-user adoption increases Register Today   Top Stories » Sky-Stream Expands C Band Coverage Across Africa and the Atlantic » DARPA Phoenix Program Selects Energid Technologies » Hemisphere GPS Awards New Patents for Machine Control and other GNSS Technology » Frontier Communications Partners with Hughes for Quicker Broadband Services   From The Expert Corner July 30, 2012 Adding Speed, Capacity to International Space Station Operations By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor NASA and other International Space Station (ISS) partners want to speed up the utilization of the $100 billion facility. Immediate plans include a same-day rendezvous and docking of a Russian Progress cargo freighter on August 1, with a longer-term goal to put a seventh crew member aboard for performing more research work. Up until now, launching crew and cargo to ISS has been a multi-day process, where a spacecraft is launched into orbit and then spends a day or so of "chase" catching up to the orbiting space station for rendezvous and docking.   ISS Progress 48 will launch at 3:15 p.m. EDT on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and dock at 9:24 p.m. on the same day. When it arrives, it will deliver about two metric tons of supplies. If successful, the direct-approach launch profile would be used for future Soyuz crew member flights, providing a couple extra days of work time to keep the space station fully staffed at six crew members. With six on board, there's enough crew time to conduct about 40 hours of person-tended research. Cut that to three people, and there's barely enough time to keep the station running and astronauts healthy enough for a return to earth... Read More   From The Blogs Liter of Light Turns Plastic Bottles into Solar Light July 30, 2012 By: Rich Tehrani What is one of the most ingenious, low-tech inventions you never heard of but which has the potential to brighten the lives of not only people in the third-world but the west as well? Liter of Light of course - the organization founded by 10 Swiss grad students from University of St.Gallen in Fall 2011. Now at 20 people and counting the organization takes a simple 1.5 liter plastic bottle, fills it with water and bleach to keep algae from growing and uses a special adhesive to bond it in a hole of the ceiling  of a third-world shack for lack of a better term... Read More    Featured Videos Satellite as a Service, Yes its True    Featured Resources » A Snapshot into Cloud Storage Adoption » Improving Corporate Communications with Wireless Digital Signage » The Perfect Blend: The Case for MSPs Delivering Hybrid Storage Solutions   Featured Channels » Cloud Communications » Business VoIP » UC GOC - Unified Communications    SatelliteSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest Satellite News   and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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