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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.
Naw, newspeak for "hit by a Russian sattelite based laser." More importantly, who cares? As long as it doesn't affect my porn downloads.
MikeAtIF*ckStuffedAnimalsDotCom
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.
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.
Whenever something translates into complete moronic gibberish, yes, the chances are you translated it wrong, on no, wait, this is /., you probably translated it perfectly.
It's been taken out by a bathtub sized slab of copper........
probably
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)
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.
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
The comet fired first...
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
The government will do anything to keep Fox News from their air waves.
Alaska is in the continental US, asshole.
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
Got a new laser pointer and was trying to piss off someone near Antares. Doh!
I drank what? -- Socrates
...wait long enough in the place that you lost it, and it will come back.
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!!!
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At least it didn't "de-orbit"...wait...*looks out window*...
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