DirecTV lost a bird?

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SAC 441 wrote:
Hughes (now DirecTV Corp.) owns Panamsat;consequently how this interest
affects DirecTV is beyond me though.The Xenon/Ion propulsion system

It affects the finances of DirecTV, perhaps not the delivery of DTV
content. The news blurb that I saw failed to mention that part. ;-)

They also made the failure sound like it would occur in a matter of days,
not years.


That's a typical US news media ploy. Misleading the public to attract
viewers.

Tom


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I wonder what would happen to VOOM if that ocurred on Rainbow 1?

Ken

Why not send the Space Shuttle to retreive the satellite and fix it?

wonder what would happen to VOOM if that ocurred on Rainbow 1?

Does anybody, except for VOOM really care? It isn't like they have any
customers to speak of! I guess they would change the name to DOOM!

KevinXKitchen wrote:

Why not send the Space Shuttle to retreive the satellite and fix it?

They won't even repair Hubble with the Space Shuttle. There's no chance
in hell they would do it for a private satellite even if it was feasible.

KevinXKitchen wrote:

Why not send the Space Shuttle to retreive the satellite and fix it?

Because a shuttle designed for a ~200 mile LEO could not travel out
to the 22,000+ mile high Clarke belt in which geostationary satellites
reside.

Because a shuttle designed for a ~200 mile LEO could not travel out
to the 22,000+ mile high Clarke belt in which geostationary satellites
reside.

I never knew that. I thought that the shuttle was designed to go out there and
grab wayward satellites so they could be refuled and fixed.

(KevinXKitchen) wrote:
Because a shuttle designed for a ~200 mile LEO could not travel out
to the 22,000+ mile high Clarke belt in which geostationary satellites
reside.

I never knew that. I thought that the shuttle was designed to go out
there and grab wayward satellites so they could be refuled and fixed.

Some satellites are at 22,500 and some are at ~250.
Some are probably at other altitudes.
Chip

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Some satellites are at 22,500 and some are at ~250.
Some are probably at other altitudes.
Chip



All of the geo-synchronous satellites are at 22,500, it is the only place
that they can be geo-synchronous.

Tom


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All of the geo-synchronous satellites are at 22,500, it is the only place
that they can be geo-synchronous.

Is there any reason they have be geo-sync? Sirrius' satellites are not geo
synch- they fly around in an "8" pattern and it works fine.