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2. United Kingdom Global Navigation Satellite System - Wikipedia

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   The United Kingdom Global Navigation Satellite System (UK GNSS) was a United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) research programme which, between May 2018 and September 2020, developed outline proposals for a United Kingdom (UK) owned and operated conventional satellite navigation system, as a British alternative to the European Union (EU) owned and operated Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System.

3. List of free-to-air channels at Astra 28.2°E (Ireland and the ...

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   A satellite minidish. This is a list of the free-to-air channels that are currently available via satellite from SES Astra satellites (Astra 2E/2F/2G) at orbital position 28.2 °E, serving Ireland and the United Kingdom. Sky and Freesat use these satellites to deliver their channels. If one was to change providers between Sky and Freesat, one ...

4. United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   Satellite image of the United Kingdom (excluding Shetland) The total area of the United Kingdom is approximately 94,354 square miles (244,376 km 2), [f] [12] with a land area of 93,723 square miles (242,741 km 2). [12]

5. British space programme - Wikipedia

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   The United Kingdom continued to contribute scientific elements to satellite launches and space projects. The British probe Beagle 2, sent as part of the ESA's 2003 Mars Express mission to study the planet Mars, was lost when it failed to respond.

6. Television in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   In the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies, a television licence is required to receive any publicly broadcast television service, or for using BBC iPlayer. This includes the commercial channels, cable and satellite transmissions, Internet-streamed channels, and applies regardless of the technology used to view. [72]

7. Satellite navigation - Wikipedia

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   The formerly Soviet, and now Russian, Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System or GLONASS), is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides a civilian radionavigation-satellite service and is also used by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. GLONASS has full global coverage since 1995 and ...