GAME ON! Echostar XI successfully reaches Geo-synchronous Transfer orbit!

[nelson61]

E11 at 115. E8 has moved a little east to make room and those on the fringe of the fringe may be seeing some signal loss without re-pointing.

 

[68bronco]

signal loss

Alaska is definitely losing signal strength on the 110 bird now. This is probably why. The signal started dropping a couple days ago.

 

[John Kotches]

The "magic" altitude of 22,300 miles and the box that a sat fly within is about 75 miles.

In other words "Nothing much to see here" from the ballet unless something goes terribly awry.

 

[John Kotches]

The "magic" altitude of 22,300 miles and the box that a sat fly within is about 75 miles.

BTW you do realize that ~ indicates approximately, right?

 

[Nius]

Actually, E11 is fitted with a camera. It is trained on the Earth though.

Hm, a 24 hour "View from Echostar 11" channel? That'd be fun

 

[tsduke]

1 degree to go!

 

[chapin4life]

Well right now it's on 10.76 will it stop in 10.00 exactly?
since echo star X is on 10.17 right now??

 

[nelson61]

It's about 150km below geostationary orbit at last report. That is why is is drifting east at 2 degrees/day. As they boost it up, it slows down and if raised above geo, it reverses direction and will drift west. They will need a couple of days of altitude adjustments to move it into final position.

 

[hrxtreme]

109.96W and moving up to the proper altitude.

 

[tsduke]

??

It's still moving. It's at 108.76.

 

[hrxtreme]

I suspect 2 things. They can't stop on a dime and this has to do with the increasing altitude, overcompensating with a resulting altitude change bringing them back to 110

 

[drdroo]

The keps may be stale now too and they need new keps for it set at 110. Either way they'll get it where it needs to be if it isn't already there..

 

[hrxtreme]

Wait for the uplink report... wait for it... sometime the next week I'd think...

 

[HDRoberts]

??

It's still moving. It's at 108.76.

"Live" tracking is not really live, but is based on a TLE. If they have an old TLE, it will still show movement. Wait to you see one dated for today or later.

 

[RandallA]

"Live" tracking is not really live, but is based on a TLE. If they have an old TLE, it will still show movement. Wait to you see one dated for today or later.

That's correct! :up

 

[fredp]

"Live" tracking is not really live, but is based on a TLE. If they have an old TLE, it will still show movement. Wait to you see one dated for today or later.

Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it. Thanks.

1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375

 

[greggor48]

Are you saying that Echostar 11 could be an 110W?

 

[HDRoberts]

Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it. Thanks.

1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375

To get just the date is pretty easy. look at the 3rd group of numbers (aside from the line identifier, before the decimal point. 08233 The first 2 digits represent the year (2008), the three following represent the day of the year, in this case 233, which was August 20th, yesterday.

So yes, Echostar 11 could easily be at 110.0, or at least very close. When they will start doing stuff with it, that's another question.

 

[nelson61]

Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it. Thanks.

1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375

format, etc can be found at the Celestrak site.

 

[fredp]

To get just the date is pretty easy. look at the 3rd group of numbers (aside from the line identifier, before the decimal point. 08233 The first 2 digits represent the year (2008), the three following represent the day of the year, in this case 233, which was August 20th, yesterday.

Julian calendar. I shouda seen it! Thanks.

format, etc can be found at the Celestrak site.

Thanks for the site listing!