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Telstar 4 is Down

Posted by michael on from the entropy-increases dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sometime this morning (Sept. 19) Telstar 4 had a major onboard failure. I just checked a few minutes ago and there are CW carriers up on 11700 MHz V & 12200 MHz H, so the spacecraft would appear to still be in its orbital slot - just no traffic. The Loral Skynet site has no mention of this yet, but supposedly Telstar 8 was already scheduled to replace T4, so they may just speed the process up. This turn of events will no doubt be of some small concern to Intelsat, who recently agreed to purchase most of Loral's US domestic fleet, including T4."

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  1. Huh? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What is Telstar 4? A satellite, certainly. How is it relevant to my life? The article submitter (and approver) could be a little more verbose.

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  2. Re:I'm as stumped as my girlfriend usually is by Read+Icculus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Inference and deduction are your friends. I had no idea what they were talking about at first, as I have no knowledge of satellite stuff at all beyond common knowledge, but I actually thought for a second or two. Loral Skynet site - Hmmm Skynet site that mentions what satellites are doing and stuff. I imagine that they are some sort of satellite info site. "Telstar 8 was... scheduled to replace T4" - Telstar 8 is obviously a satellite. T4 no doubt means Telstar 4. WTF is so hard to understand about that sentence if you read the submitted paragraph?

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  3. Re:I'm as stumped as my girlfriend usually is by Bull999999 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Stop your bitching and read up,"

    Do you really expect slashdotters to do some research before posting?

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