Intelsat Global files for $1.75 billion IPO
(Reuters) - Intelsat Global Holdings S.A., the world's biggest operator of satellite services, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $1.75 billion in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company filed for its IPO on a day Facebook Inc's eagerly awaited debut fell short of expectations. Technology stocks have had a good run in an otherwise lackluster IPO market, and ...
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Japan in first commercial satellite launch
Japan successfully put a South Korean satellite into space Friday, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of commercial launches.
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From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth
Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto a globe model — it’s the full disk of our planet in captured as a single, enormous 121 megapixel image, acquired by Russia’s Elektro-L weather-forecasting satellite. (...)Read the rest of From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image [...]
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