Satellite Quotations

In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining.

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

We had this thing at Stanford called the 'Campus Loop,' and then we had another run called 'The Dish,' and you'd run up to this giant satellite dish, which was probably extremely unhealthy. I would do those two runs, and I just found it so therapeutic. My girlfriends and I would have these great conversations about guys and school and life.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services in addition to satellite TV reception and basic boxes for TV reception only. Advanced features include hard drives for DVR services, multiple tuners, more connectivity options, and high-definition decoding for receiving HD signals.

We are pleased to announce the purchase of the Horizons-2 satellite which extends two significant partnerships that PanAmSat has developed over the past five years, ... First, PanAmSat and JSAT will double capacity in our Horizons joint venture, which has already proven to be a highly successful for both companies. This satellite will provide Ku-band growth capacity in North America for PanAmSat in 2007 through the next decade. And secondly, we are extending our relationship with Orbital Sciences as our primary supplier of small satellites which have become a critical part of our business strategy going forward.

We are lowering our 2001 and 2002 estimates to take into account ongoing pressure on the company from the automotive market and from the initiatives that require substantial investment in advanced semiconductors, laser technologies, and commercial satellite Internet services.

You don't know what someone is going to be like before you have met them and certainly satellite interviews are a lot tougher,

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

Unfortunately, my satellite measurements reveal that almost all pollution sources produce many small aerosols that work to reduce the size of the cloud droplets, thus the precipitation.

We're being extremely aggressive in our pricing of the satellite navigation functionality because we know it's going to be one of the most desirable technology applications this Christmas selling period.

What we're doing is fusing together images through the use of multiple satellites. Each satellite has its own view of the Earth, and we're piecing many of them together for a more complete picture.

We're an entrainment company, so content is prime and we want to preserve the quality of the programming. As this is satellite radio, not analogue radio, you do have some limitations, but we felt that 50 hours of recordable capability went a long way to satisfying demand.

XM was the first company to offer satellite radio, the first to introduce satellite radios for the car and home, and the first to offer portable, live satellite radios. Now we're the first to offer radio channels in 5.1 Surround every minute of every day. We have an outstanding partnership with Neural Audio, which shares the same passion for high-quality sound that we have at XM.

XM Satellite Radio's commitment to college sports is extraordinary and we are truly pleased to welcome XM to the BIG EAST family. This partnership gives BIG EAST fans throughout the country the opportunity to follow their teams, especially during our Basketball Championship Tournaments in March.

We've seen millions of MP3 players sold and millions of satellite radio products sold. Now we're marrying them together and will hopefully create a new market.

The fact that people didn't go to the satellite performances told us that they wanted to be in the Capitol Theatre. The quick sellout really reinforced that.

Last year's hurricane season demonstrated the need for mobile satellite systems that could be quickly deployed and satisfy multiple communication needs. These self-contained systems, powered by as little as a car battery, can re-establish communications rapidly without the need for land- based or cell infrastructure in nearly all areas of North America and the rest of the World.

Many of the satellite operations that go on there make Aurora a prime spot for aerospace operations.

Many White House photo-ops are staged events, but did the most recent one go too far? President Bush held a video conference on Thursday with U.S. troops in Iraq. But some eyebrows were raised by what came over the satellite beforehand: A Pentagon aide rehearsing the soldiers' answers. We'll have more on that just ahead.

OK, what are our procedures for distributing the ATO (air tasking order) in event of satellite failure?

Sirius Satellite Radio is where the excitement, creativity and energy that FM once had is gravitating to, today and tomorrow,

Sirius has already gotten the Howard Stern groupies. We will see how much his other fans miss Howard and how many more of them will transfer to Sirius. We are looking at the market penetration of Sirius right now. They are showing what the subscriber numbers are state to state. Satellite is clearly a national product, but Howard had a lot of local advertisers.

Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and violence than what you routinely find on cable and satellite TV and radio.

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.

More and more companies are now looking at ways that satellite services can augment their disaster recovery plans.

No private company can get access to that bandwidth unless they spend a lot or resort to a satellite network,

Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well.

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.

If we do nothing, we will lose the business we already have to a growing number of competitors, including Bermuda, (the Cayman Islands), Gibraltar, Luxembourg and Singapore. These jurisdictions are committing increased financial and personnel resources to develop their satellite industries.

If they can cross the boundary into the cell phone, satellite radio will have cleared the last major hurdle. MP3s are nice but the penetration of cell phones is phenomenal, and if they can get the technology down to the size where they can integrate it into a cell phone, it will be a huge step toward the mainstream for satellite radio.

I have heard from satellite companies about going to satellite and I am giving it lots of consideration,

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

But there could be other areas we simply don't know about yet. In fact, we're already beginning to receive feedback from additional witnesses of milky seas. Some of these accounts occurred in regions we had not thought to look before, and we're currently working to find matches with the satellite data.

But the growth in satellite radio has shown that people will pay for it if we give them more choices and better technology.

Based upon the satellite data we have received from Hawkeye and the results from our first well, we believe we have selected an extremely desirable location for our second well. We are still in the testing phase of our initial well after our fracture stimulation treatment in February 2006.

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

I can tell you that in a survey we took, sports at one point was the No. 1 factor people subscribed to satellite radio.

Given the momentum and the attributes that satellite radio has, it's not going to be easy to encroach on XM or Sirius and still be profitable,

Fox News Channel terminated Ben Johnson, a satellite truck engineer, upon learning that he had admitted to the acts described by the Customs Department. This is an unfortunate incident and his supervisor took the appropriate action for this transgression.

From Satellite is straight-ahead rock, very L.A. They drink too much like us. Evans Blue is a bunch of goofy Canadians and one Russian guy, kind of a dark and eerie sound.

From our satellite photos, we've seen evidence that some of the facilities we used to monitor closely have been dismantled completely,

I envision a day where we have complete convergence between cable, satellite and the Internet.

Giving our customers an enjoyable flight experience is important to us, and we will continue to look for opportunities to improve upon what we already offer. We are pleased to provide our customers this enhanced audio programming developed by XM Satellite Radio, as it supports our goal to provide innovative services to our customers.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

He has satellite radio and he listens to jazz mostly. And baseball games. White Sox.

He had a GPS (global positioning satellite tether) on his leg, so we knew where he went and there was a paper trail we could follow, ... What money we couldn't find had been turned into cash.

Having worked every Breeders' Cup in some capacity on television or radio, I am delighted that SIRIUS satellite radio has boldly moved forward with this complete Breeders' Cup Day broadcast, ... I am honored that, once again, I can be of service as the radio voice of the greatest day in racing...

He's got to focus on integrating the business units of AT&T, on integrating the services so you can go to a consumer and say, 'We're not just your long-distance service. We want to be your Internet provider, your satellite services and, eventually, your local service,' ... The magic of the bundle is what every phone company is going after.

Heck, nobody wrote an article on us in five years and now we have people coming by practice to take pictures. This is all new to us. (Two-time state champion) Satellite Beach usually gets all the attention over here.

There are so many different ways to listen to your favorite bands. Everything from digital albums and singles, subscription services like Rhapsody or Napster, Internet radio, satellite radio, music on cell phones, CDs with added content.

Just like 'The Sopranos' fits HBO better than NBC, ... I think that Stern's content probably is a better fit for satellite radio than regular radio.

It could be a slight threat to satellite radio but I would expect they'll coexist.

I think you're going to see companies maintain satellite offices there, certainly because New Orleans geographically is closer to a lot of the work in the Gulf of Mexico. But as a location for headquarters, it's a similar situation from what you've seen in Tulsa, Dallas and Denver. A lot of these companies have relocated here.

I think an acquisition of a satellite TV provider would fit an immediate need, and they would continue to invest in their networks to offer network-based services.

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

Our studies clearly indicate that this country has the technical capability to launch this mission and place a satellite in the lunar orbit for carrying out scientific studies.

Our target is businesses in Hampton Roads that are growing and expanding that are looking to enter a new market through satellite locations. Our campaign up there is geared to helping to identify those companies that would be interested in increasing market share.

Our view on satellite radio remains bullish, and we believe that pay-radio represents a rare opportunity to capture secular growth as an investor and that duopoly economics will benefit returns over time.

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Part of the project involved getting kids to send in videos. We set up news crews to go out and videotape the kids; we also had to find contractors to mount satellite dishes.

Our markets are home video and dvd, cable and satellite television, and broadcast television. Select theatrical dates are a distinct possibility,

Our long term goal is to see a satellite office in the North Channel area, but it won't happen without community support.

Stern effect. Howard Stern has raised the awareness of the entire satellite radio category.

Some of the things he's been saying on the air about terrestrial (public) radio and his promoting of satellite radio has created some strained relationships and ruffled feathers.

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

I think satellite is trying to compete with radio , not the other way around. I think this is a technological opportunity radio has been quick to exploit.

We live in the country. We have a satellite television service. We certainly don't need another one.

The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.

The announcement from Northrop Grumman Corporation is the latest in a growing series of successes for 1394 in some very exciting and valuable applications. Their testing program for the polar orbiting satellite system demonstrates the benefits of 1394. These include very high speed data transport, peer-to-peer connectivity which eliminates the need for a central controlling host, flexible topology which makes it easy to add devices on an as needed basis, and efficient allocation of bandwidth which benefits configurations which include a variety of devices with varying throughput needs. These are the attributes of 1394 that continue to move it into new product groups, and we are very pleased to hear of their application in the fault-tolerant chipset for the satellite program.

Wild Jack made a conscious decision to make the final table open only to feeder satellite winners. For as little as $11 or $22, a player will win a poker trip worth over $3,000. And with nominal buy-in fees, we plan on seeing a lot of our regulars, as well as newcomers who find poker boot camps appealing.

WildBlue-1 will help to ensure that we are able to handle 100 percent of customer demand into the foreseeable future. Our low-cost, high-speed Internet via satellite service has proven extremely popular nationwide, requiring that we accelerate the launch of our new satellite later this year to meet the demand.

You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.

You just don't end up with a satellite up there that suddenly, magically gives you the kind of information you want to hear or see because you want it today. If you haven't planned for it about seven years ago, it probably isn't going to happen,

We can't expect that lesbians in Macon and Gainesville will come to our weekly support groups. And it's not realistic to think we can raise enough money for satellite offices, even though there is a clear need.

We're delighted to have XM as our newest satellite radio partner. At this exciting time in the league's history, a new partnership with XM allows us to offer hockey fans unprecedented NHL coverage on the nation's largest satellite radio service.

We're delighted to have XM as our newest satellite radio partner, ... At this exciting time in the league's history, a new partnership with XM allows us to offer hockey fans unprecedented NHL coverage on the nation's largest satellite radio service.

We're ahead of the curve this time where we weren't last time, ... We've already shipped out satellite phones to the area.

We are thrilled about the National Hockey League's decision to partner with XM Satellite Radio, ... The clear winners of this partnership are the millions of hockey fans in the U.S. and in Canada who are incredibly passionate about their favorite NHL team and who will now be able to follow them regardless of where they call home.

We are in a dramatically changed business environment, ... The slow recovery of both air travel and airline profitability continues to hurt demand for both aircraft and aircraft support. Demand for commercial satellite launches may be several years away from recovery.

We're not talking about weaponizing space. We're not talking about massive satellite attacks coming over the horizon or anything like that. This is really a way to understand space situational awareness, who's out there, who's operating. We understand that,

We are raising the issue with Congress that whatever the platform is, whether it's over-the-air digital radio, HD radio or satellite radio, that there's a new functionality coming where there will be a convergence of platforms, ... There's the capability to cherry-pick songs, store them in players and avoid a purchase. That's a concern to creators.

When the TV comes back on, parents can control what their family sees before it hits the TV screen. Generations of parents relied on the off button or changed the channel when they saw programs that weren't right for their family. Now parents have even more options, like the v-chip, ratings, cable or satellite blocking programs, to limit what comes up on your TV.

We sent six satellite phones to Louisiana with our troops, but the phones are back now, ... We also sent a unified command suite with communications equipment, and that vehicle is still there.

We are currently in discussions with all cable and satellite providers in our footprint.

The question is how can they make their product appealing to the cable and satellite operators. So it's not just 100 percent based on customer awareness.