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XM Satellite Radio to Broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound (Broadcast Newsroom)
XM Satellite Radio, the nation's leading satellite radio company, will broadcast select XM music channels in 5.1 Surround Sound, marking the first time that a radio company has broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound twenty-four hours a day.
Voice-activated XM Satellite radio on tap (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — Washington-based XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. plans to introduce voice-activated station switching next year.
Russia Launches Communications Satellite (AP via Yahoo! News)
A Russian booster rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite blasted into space Thursday after a series of delays, the Federal Space Agency said.
U.S. broadband airliner satellite launched (PhysOrg)
A communications satellite designed to provide wireless broadband to airliners has been carried into space by France's Alcatel Alenia Space.
Europe launches first satellite for GPS alternative (Personal Computer World)
The satellite dubbed Giove A was launched by a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning. The satellite is expected to be deployed at an altitude of 23,258 km, inclined at 56 degrees to the Equator.
Europe testing satellite system to rival U.S. (San Jose Mercury News)
The European Union on Wednesday launched the first satellite in its $4.5 billion Galileo global positioning system, a bid to enhance the world's growing reliance on satellite navigation and break the U.S. monopoly on space-based networks.
EU Launches First Satellite in Galileo Navigation System (RedNova)
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press writer PARIS The European Union launched the first satellite in its Galileo navigation program on Wednesday, which European officials expect one day will end the continent's reliance on the U.S. Global Positioning System.