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| NEW STAR FOR NEW SKIES - NSS-8, a powerful Boeing 702 satellite, is the first Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc. spacecraft to be procured by New Skies Satellites N.V. of The Netherlands. NSS-8 will carry 88 operational transponders, and its solar panels are designed to deliver 17 kilowatts of total spacecraft power. NSS-8 will deliver services that include broadcast television, Internet, multimedia and corporate data transmission for New Skies' customers in the Western Hemisphere as well as point-to-multipoint distribution of video to cable headends throughout the Americas.
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