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Intelsat-7 Lost In Space
freitasm writes "The Intelsat-7 was reported lost today. The satellite covered the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Central America, and parts of South America. It was used to provide digital programming in the Cable Zone, direct-to-user programming, and Internet and data applications to North/Central/South America.
The company is already working on the launch of Intelsat-8, scheduled for 17 December."
Fortran 3 :) :)
Losing satelites in space, ever since 1964
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Doctor Smith... Warning Will Robinson
more space junk, just what we all need.
"According to the agreement, the total loss of the IA-7 satellite would give the purchasers the right not to consummate the acquisition of Intelsat"
:)
Maybe they decided they didn't want the company after all, and it was cheaper to take out a satellite somehow then to break the contract?
Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials? :-)
Or do I have a wrong translation of "programming"? Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, but the use of "programming" instead of "broadcasting" looks a bit strange to me.
Newspeak for power failure?
right ?
and... w00t ! (or not ?)
Crivens! I kicked meself in me own heid!
From the post, "It was used to provide digital programming in the Cable Zone, direct-to-user programming, and Internet and data applications to North/Central/South America." So what's the actual effect of this? Is their service loss? Or is there enough redundancy to cover?
Penny Robinson: Never love anything, kiddo, you will just end up losing it.
I guess it goes for lost satellites too...
Remember how the US Government was complaining about not being able to get enough satelite bandwidth over war zones? Sounds like they just fixed that problem!
Search first, ask questions later.
Have they tried looking down the back of the sofa?
Earlier today, the Pentagon announced the first succesful test of their new EMP 'starwars' defence shield.
It's been taken out by a bathtub sized slab of copper........
probably
yeah, like I said before...
Crivens! I kicked meself in me own heid!
I want to be the first Cable Guy in space!
That would explain the weird programming I've been recieving. I thought these were just Star Trek re-runs I never saw.
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It was Santa, he is doing some training runs for coming december 25th/etc and accidentally ran over the satellite.
Poor Rudolph hit his nose on it, it will be red for about a month.
This is the sig that says NI (again)
You can read more info about this here
What exactly do you do if you're running satellite services and the satellite dies? As far as I can see, you either have to get a replacement up pretty damned quickly or you have to go reposition everyone's dishes so you can use another sat. Or are there already other satellites close enough to be able to use without moving dishes?
(How close do sats have to be if you want to avoid moving dishes?)
I imagine losing a satellite would be quite a big deal for satellite TV companies, etc who have all their services routed through a single satellite - talk about all your eggs in one basket.
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Fortunatly they will be rebroadcasting the entire 16 days worthwhile programming once the new satellite is online. The transmission is expected to take approximatly 131 seconds.
Beep beep.
Damn, satellites being taken out, earthquakes in Japan and dolphins committing mass suicide in Australia.
The facts all point to this being either the second coming or an alien invasion. I cannot believe no one is doing anything about this, the psychic viewing community have been warning about exactly this kind of disaster for weeks now and the Church has known about it for even longer. Why are they covering this up ?
Wait, I am picking up their carrier waves on the plate in my head, they say they will ban TV, Gays and Fornication but offer us all the opportunity of at least 4 fully accredited abductions per family and provide live reconstructions of the of the Raputure. They have big eyes, funny shaped heads but big hands and huge crosses and we should welcome them.
Not redundant, since the previous post is being modded into oblivion. I got a kick out of this, and it only takes 10 seconds of anyone's time if they pay attention to it at all.
Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
why the hell haven't SCO fixed it yet, haven't they noticed?
I like it, very subtle.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
LOL
"We own all your code, pay us all your money"
www.sco.com
Major West: It's still working.
John Robinson: What?
Major West: The hyperdrive. If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.
John Robinson: But, without a hypergate, the exit vector's random. There's no telling where we'd come out.
Only this time they hit the sun. Poor Robinsons.
Source: http://imdb.com/title/tt0120738/quotes
I don't need a signature.
And CIA has enough intelligence(?) to confirm it.
I'm much more funny, interesting and insightful than the moderators think
"The Intelsat-7 was reported lost today."
finders keepers
fifteen jugglers, five believers
sssh, don't spoil it for those who haven't read it yet.
Great , another few tons of space junk floating about in the geostationary orbit. Whats worse is that if they've completely lost contact with the satellite then they won't even be able to shove it into a parking orbit like they do with old decommisioned ones. It'll just drift about in the main orbital zone and could possibly one day collide with a working satellite. AT the very least it means that spot in the orbit is out of bounds for other satellites now.
Cue Klingon target practice jokes ...
I was wondering what that thing on my sidewalk was. Now I know.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
That is absolutely fucking hilarious.
This ComputerWeekly's article says there was a failure of a communications satellite over the weekend that knocked out US broadband services supplied by StarBand Communications. The total loss of Intelsat's Americas-7 satelllite forced StarBand to move customers to a different satellite. StarBand did not say how many subscribers were affected, but is attempting to provide them with a temporary dial-up service.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
So who tested the laser? I mean we know you are upset about the Western coup in Ukraine but you are not I repeat not supposed to test laser. (Now translate to Russian :))
**Life is too short to be serious**
anyone wanna guess what the next userfriendly comic strip is going to be about?
Perhaps it's a test for Anti-Satellite Warfare.
Linux/Open Source/Anti Microsoft News
Intelsat7? Right?
The comet fired first...
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
That's where I usually find all the things I lose.
The government will do anything to keep Fox News from their air waves.
"A communication disruption can mean only one thing... Invasion" - Silo Bibble, Star Wars Episode I
Uh oh...
Alaska is in the continental US, asshole.
Perhaps they're trying to work out why their password isn't 'password' anymore.
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
Puts on tin foil hat and spins propeller.
"Intelsat already has plans to launch the IA-8 satellite, currently scheduled to occur on 17 December 2004."
Gee, that was handy..
ABCNEWSABSAT
Excerpt
Intelsat has declared IA-7 "a total loss" according to Ramu Potarazu, the Chief Operating Officer for Intelsat. They are not giving any reason for the failure as of yet. At approx 0222 EST Sunday 11.28.04, they had an electrical short of some kind on Bus 1 and eight minutes later lost telemetry to the spacecraft according to Intelsat engineer Kevin Maloy. There were no station-keeping maneuvers being done at the time, Maloy said. IA-7 was located at 129 degrees West longitude.
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
OK, so I only glanced at TFA, and I realise that Intelsat has to replace the lost functionality as quickly as they can... But I can't help being slightly suspicious about the timing with the launch of Intelsat-8...
I mean, do satellite-launching companies have any obligations to bring an old satellite down cleanly and safely to avoid the accumulation of space junk ? If so, how much would such an operation cost ?
Undoubtedly looks like I'm speaking from under a tin foil hat here, but I wonder how long in advance, before the "loss", the launch of Intelsat-8 had been planned for...
or maybe they just like the new slogan
That's a pretty restrained piece of hacking, if it is hacking
J :w ww.sco.com/+&hl=en
The Google cache has it too.
http://www.google.de/search?q=cache:6NanirOL3o4
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Or maybe they just think it's an accurate statement?
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what is that chick writing on the wall... "hacked by [illegible]"?
does that mean that the hacker is that chick, or that a hacker got his girlfriend to pose for a photo?
if the latter, then that means there's at least one hacker with a girlfriend out there... hmmm
Google doesn't cache images, so how can google possibly "have it" when the hack is merely a modified image?
Look at the properties of the image concerned. You'll see it's coming directly from sco.com and not from any google cache.
I'm a sysadmin at a cable company, and I happened to be on call this weekend rather than the guy who knows a bit more about the receiver setup. Funny thing was that the helpdesk kept telling me to fix it no matter how many times I said "The bird has no power".
There's a req on my bosses desk for a jetpack this morning.
The WORST part about this was the loss of 3 mexican channels a a block of porn pay per view. The amount of lost revenue from the porn being out must be STAGGERING.
http://www.lyngsat.com/ia7.html
Anyone know where the "Asia After Dark" channel went?
The truth about Led Zep should never be told on
Corrent. In fact the HTTP timestamp information shows that the image was last modified "Nov 29 05:22:02 EST".
1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:37:53 GMT
3 Server: Apache
4 Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:22:02 GMT
5 ETag: "726a60-4e19-41aaf84a"
6 Accept-Ranges: bytes
7 Content-Length: 19993
8 Connection: close
9 Content-Type: image/jpeg
Ah, that must be because of the huge black saucer-shaped thing floating above Toronto today ... anybody else noticed it?
And my GOD HELP YOU if that thing carried the spice channel....
Include Spice, Playboy, and TEN.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Got a new laser pointer and was trying to piss off someone near Antares. Doh!
I drank what? -- Socrates
Make a wish...
I thought everyone knew.. Santa is a communist. Jovial and caring in his outward appearance, he believes in giving away things, but only to those who follow his social code (ie, naughty vs nice). He's ever watchful, particularly of waking status (admittedly more of a fascist trait, but a necessity in any dictatorship). He has his loyal army of minions surrounding him. On top of all that, he has a RED military uniform that I've never seen him depicted in anything but.
The truth about Scientology, Xenu, and you: Operation Clambake
...wait long enough in the place that you lost it, and it will come back.
Dammit, they fixed it, just when I sent the email to my friends saying they should hurry up and check it out before it gets fixed. Bugger!
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.
I would check E-Bay.
Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
So they're gonna send up Intelsat 8?
No respect. Did they even consider sending up AMDsat 1?
-JDF
In other news: Cheap satellite for sale on ebay.
May have some minor defects.
No refund!!!
-- This tag was beamed to you from space...
who cares what agreement it breaks or doesnt, how the heck do you lose a satelite in space. i work for a cable company and when i heard about it saturday night, it was, how did we lose a satelite, or was it the signal. the reply was 'i don't know' , the customers reply was.........where the fsck is my tv @....back to back calls for 5 hours because of this.........you know we do have to listen to a lot of people complain........so tell me again, how do we lose a satelite?
Just how powerful is your laser pointer?
and
Where can I get one?
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
I say we start using AMDSat instead of Intel. Then it could have 64 Bit Support. =D
(Laugh, it's funny)
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
It has been a long time since I have worked in satcomm, but I think that all countries allow 2 degree spacing for C-band now. I know the US has allowed it since the 80's. I'm not positive, but I think that some allow 0.5 degree spacing for Ku band in certain circumstances.
(S(SKK)(SKK))(S(SKK)(SKK))
Payback for leaving trash on the surface of the planet.
My dang Universal remote came up with some crap about orbits and thrusters... I thought it was a video game. Sorry guys.
/\/\icro/\/\uncher
"Sudden and Unexpected Electrical Distribution Anomaly."
Reminds me of "uncontrolled flight into terrain," (the official designation for an airplane crash).
Has anyone asked Dr Smith or Robby? I bet dollars to donuts that the good(not) Doctor had something to do with its disappearance.
lick the cancle button (at least thats what our Chinese QA says)
First of all, find your shift key.
Second, there is a funny concept about manufactured goods: they break.
They didn't where-did-it-go-we-can't-find-it lose it, they it's-a-total-loss-because-the-batteries-exploded lost it.
Subtle difference, but effective.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
They would send one up, but it would only carry four channels....although the four channels would be more interesting, higher quality, and have less commercials.
Huh?
hope it doesn't affect my satellite inter
Get your torrents...
Intelsat 7 managed to knock out the Powerball communication in Nebraska. W/ the jackpot at about 127 million dollars, it's really hurting the potential ticket buyers' odds which already has approached near zero long ago. Omaha World Herald article details this unthinkable situation for those poor folks.
Can some please enlighten me about ViaSAT's infrastructure and network design/topology WITH RESPECT TO REDUNDANCY? I am interested in knowing what the backup plan was if and when IA-7 was no longer in the picture.