AMC -14 story gets more interesting

[dave2609]

Dont know much about the actual satelites but from what i have been reading how big is this bird? It was stated that its low orbit was 500 miles is it possible for it to be captured by a space shuttle and then be redeployed? I just install satelite receivers so most of this is greek to me.

 

[jerryez]

The shuttle only goes up about 150 miles normally. Also, it is booked until end of life with other missions.

 

[harshness]

Boeing doesn't want SES to use the lunar flyby.

Boeing wants SES to settle their lawsuit with them first and foremost. If the litigation wasn't ongoing, Boeing probably wouldn't have been so punitive in pricing the licensing of the technology.

As for the contention that Boeing does business with Echostar, look again. Echostar's fleet is made up entirely of non-Boeing satellites and IIRC, they don't currently have anything ordered from Boeing. Echostar seems to be quite comfortable with Lockheed Martin and SSL.

 

[mike123abc]

Boeing wants SES to settle their lawsuit with them first and foremost. If the litigation wasn't ongoing, Boeing probably wouldn't have been so punitive in pricing the licensing of the technology.

As for the contention that Boeing does business with Echostar, look again. Echostar's fleet is made up entirely of non-Boeing satellites and IIRC, they don't currently have anything ordered from Boeing. Echostar seems to be quite comfortable with Lockheed Martin and SSL.

You forget about sealaunch. This is pretty important to Dish.

 

[harshness]

You forget about sealaunch. This is pretty important to Dish.

It would seem that you're falsely equating Sea Launch to Boeing. Boeing owns only 40% of Sea Launch and they seem not to show much favoritism.

 

[RVD420]

But they don't OWN it.

They could be talking to the insurance company about buying the bird as-is if and when the claim is paid.

 

[batman77777]

hey guys

hi this is batman

 

[RandallA]

hi this is batman

Where's Robin?

 

[Pepper]

Apparently there are people who just randomly click on things, and if there's a box you can type in, they do. I've sighted two of that strange species tonight.

 

[rich88]

Where's Robin?

Better yet, where is Catwoman??::dev

 

[8bitbytes]

hi this is batman

Did Alfred let you on the web again?

 

[hockeynut5150]

Did Alfred let you on the web again?

:up

 

[mdonnelly]

The FCC approved Dish's request to use TP23 & TP24 on E12 at 61.5 for another 180 days. One condition of the approval was that Dish needs to report on the status of the E3 replacement by June 30th.

See here.

 

[jansan]

Thanks for the article.

 

[tomcrown1]

How did batman get on the web and who is he after??

( I better hide it could be me

 

[vegassatellite]

The FCC approved Dish's request to use TP23 & TP24 on E12 at 61.5 for another 180 days. One condition of the approval was that Dish needs to report on the status of the E3 replacement by June 30th.

See here.

Dish already has this report ready for the FCC. Here's the gist of it:



In The Matter Of Replacement Of Echostar III Satellite:

Replacement expected SOON.

 

[Dah-Henny]

Things that make you go hmmmm?
Heavens Above had been reporting new TLE's for AMC-14 daily, but the last update was Friday, May 2.
Makes me wonder???

 

[davisdog]

Don't know about Heaven's above, but Norad still has current TLE's. This ones only a couple hours old and it's still hanging around where it has been

Element Set Data
AMC-14
1 32708U 08011A 08129.26823948 -.00000056 00000-0 00000+0 0 499
2 32708 046.3894 157.6152 6958314 007.8393 359.1100 02.23127661 1256

SATCAT Data
Catalog Number Common Name International Designator Country (Key) Launch Date Launch Site (Key) Decay Date Period Incl. Apogee Perigee RCS Latest Data
32708 AMC-14 2008-011A US 2008-03-14 TTMTR 640.73 48.02 35569 913 8.3201 Last Elset

 

[Dah-Henny]

Thanks Davisdog!

 

[rocco_fanucci]

US govt took control of AMC-14 a week ago, and SES took control of Ed Horowitz this morning.