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Intelsat-7 Lost In Space

Posted by timothy on from the treadstone-now-officially-down dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Off by one error, again? by Project2501a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh, yeah, fp

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  2. Fear not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the robot with wildly waving arms will find it

  3. Re:Off by one error, again? by Maavin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    damn you !

    I was thinking of something witty !
    ;)
    In other news: The SCO Site was slightly hacked...

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  4. McCarthy says: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I blame the russians.

  5. Re:Off by one error, again? by Project2501a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We must be hanging out in the same EFnet irc channels...

    EFnet#C is for cookies. Share your recepies.

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  6. BREAKING NEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO WEBSITE HACKED

  7. www.sco.com hacked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    go NOW

  8. Re:Direct-to-user-programming? by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does that mean the satellite is programming user brains with commercials?

    Keep your tinfoil hat on just in case. Informative mod, please.

  9. That's what happened by koi88 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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  10. Speaking of failures... by nmg196 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...it looks like SCO has been hacked?!

    http://www.sco.com/ (see graphic - "we own all your code")

    (yes I know this is horribly off topic. But you have to admit, it's kind of interesting.. :))

    1. Re:Speaking of failures... by nmg196 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

  11. "IA-7" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't that "Intel Architecture"? Maybe they should have used Mac architecture!

  12. Re:ASAT weapons test by and+by · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  13. that song... by sv25 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another else immediately think of the Queen song from long ago... "another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust"?

  14. Lost and Found! by u-235-sentinel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would check E-Bay.

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