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Telstar 4 is Down
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."
Isn't "CW carrier" redundant?
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people who say "CW carrier" are probably the same people who say "NIC card", yes it's redundant.
Irony: Moderating a post as "Redundant" for pointing out that something is redundant. Too bad we can't metamoderate that moderation as "Funny"!
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