I can see a truck floating through space with a "Sanford and Son" logo on the side dragging a big magnet through outer space in my mind.
Echostar 18 Launch Approx 4:15 EDT June 18 2016
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Unfortunately, most space junk is non-ferrous and wouldn't respond to your giant space magnet. Maybe a huge butterfly net?
It astounds me how many launches there are nearly every day to put something into space...20 sats went up a couple of days ago on an Indian rocket. How much of the rocket required to launch this stuff falls back to Earth. At the current rate, it's going to get extremely crowded in a very short period of time...one cascade effect like we saw in the movie Gravity and that'll pretty much close off space to us for quite a while...
I'm wondering if this satellite will address the spot beam issue that prevents customers from getting Hopper 3s. I wonder if that had something to do with the change of plans from the 110?
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It's real. One of the big space guys has plans for a space tug that would lasso space junk and shove it out of the geostationary orbit. I'll see if I can find the link.
Yes indeed Space Junk is a big deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
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There was a new epoch mid day Thursday with the perigee at 33000+ km and near the test longitude.
Averaging about 1200 km below the geostationary altitude.
The tracking sites projections will now become more meaningful.
Averaging about 1200 km below the geostationary altitude.
The tracking sites projections will now become more meaningful.
They are considering refueling them..
That's very interesting.
I wonder why they don't do that now?
I'll go lol.
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another epoch late Friday night.
drifting east at 46 km below geo.
Looks like it should be "home" in about 3 days
drifting east at 46 km below geo.
Looks like it should be "home" in about 3 days
Looks like it's home for testing
NORAD ID:
41592
LOCAL TIME:
19:17:10
UTC:
00:17:10
LATITUDE:
-0.04
LONGITUDE:
-67.11
ALTITUDE [km]:
35738.32
ALTITUDE [mi]:
22206.76
SPEED [km/s]:
3.08
SPEED [mi/s]:
1.91
AZIMUTH: 151.4 SSE
ELEVATION:
+41.6
RIGHT ASCENSION:
14h 23m 46s
DECLINATION:
-06° 57' 22''
Local Sidereal Time:
NORAD ID:
41592
LOCAL TIME:
19:17:10
UTC:
00:17:10
LATITUDE:
-0.04
LONGITUDE:
-67.11
ALTITUDE [km]:
35738.32
ALTITUDE [mi]:
22206.76
SPEED [km/s]:
3.08
SPEED [mi/s]:
1.91
AZIMUTH: 151.4 SSE
ELEVATION:
+41.6
RIGHT ASCENSION:
14h 23m 46s
DECLINATION:
-06° 57' 22''
Local Sidereal Time:
I'm not sure standard refueling ports have been decided upon. I do seem to remember the idea being floated some years ago.
Can't we just put a giant magnet in orbit and collect all the space junk into one big giant mass that could be easily avoided?
Yes, Bob.
Hey, now what did you say recently about name-calling and personal attacks!
updated test schedule.
60 days ending on Sept 6.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=1140937
60 days ending on Sept 6.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=1140937
Epoch updated and Parked at 67.2W
http://www.satellite-calculations.com/Satellite/last30days.php
http://www.satellite-calculations.com/Satellite/last30days.php
Quick, Let me get my Superbuddy.
I don't have the 67 Orbital Location.
Just kidding , I'm Preparing for Allen when he freaks out and wonders why it's not at the 61.5.
But good to see everything so far so good.
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http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number
Spare status at 61.5W. See Narrative for details. Referenced Schedule S with beams has not yet been entered into FCC system.
Spare status at 61.5W. See Narrative for details. Referenced Schedule S with beams has not yet been entered into FCC system.
Quick, Let me get my Superbuddy.
I don't have the 67 Orbital Location.
Just kidding , I'm Preparing for Allen when he freaks out and wonders why it's not at the 61.5.
But good to see everything so far so good.
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Are you from California? Just curious why you always refer to orbital slots as Californians do freeways.
