SES Astra And Neo-Sky Sign Agreement To Launch New Satellite Internet Service

INTERNET SPACE

'Satellite is the only system capable of ubiquitously gaping the so-called "digital divide" in Spain, as it enables broadband connections in places with no other access possibilities.'

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 24, 2004
SES Astra, an SES GLOBAL company and Neo-Sky, the broadband operator of Iberdrola, have reached an agreement to launch broadband Internet services via satellite.

The new internet access, aimed mainly at places in Spain that do not have ADSL coverage, will offer download speeds of between 256 kbps and 768 kbps, and a return channel through the telephone line.

The service will also offer more than 130 digital television channels through the computer, broadcast free-to-air via the Astra satellite system at 19.2(degree) East.

This means a wide range of programmes in several languages (including Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Arabic) and on a multitude of topics from news, sport, entertainment and business channels to music and children's channels. More than 10% of Spanish homes currently receive digital television via Astra.

This new offer from Astra is complementary to two-way broadband Internet solutions which Neo-Sky has been marketing since 2002 through Satlynx, a company in which SES GLOBAL has a shareholding.

Satlynx' two-way Internet system notably enables small and medium sized companies as well as public administrations to benefit from both upstream and downstream Internet access speeds of up to 2 Mbps.

Satellite is the only system capable of ubiquitously gaping the so-called "digital divide" in Spain, as it enables broadband connections in places with no other access possibilities.

The agreement reached by SES Astra and Neo-Sky will thus enable isolated areas in Spain to have broadband access to the Internet.

INTERNET SPACE

Simulation Of Binary Stars: A Testbed For Grid Computing

Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2004
A GASS simulation of Gaia telemetry, corresponding to five years of observations of 1000 astrometric binary stars, has been successfully completed using the GaiaGrid environment. The Astrometric Binary Star Analysis is one of the shell algorithms selected to be run in the GaiaGrid environment. In order to test this algorithm realistic simulations of telemetry, covering five years of Gaia observations, for about 1000 astrometric binary stars needed to be generated and then ingested into the GDAAS system.

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