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Echostar 15
Coming soon the sat Echostar 15 will be a 61.5 to take over from the old & dying Echostar 3.
Coming soon the sat Echostar 15 will be a 61.5 to take over from the old & dying Echostar 3.
119 is a longitude, it is a position in the sky.
More than one satellite can be located at 119, there are currently at least three (at least one is DirecTV's).
There are at least three at 110 (at least one is DirecTV's), and currently two at 61.5, one at 129, two at 77, and IIRC, two at 72.7, not to mention one at 118.7...
More than one satellite can be located at 119, there are currently at least three (at least one is DirecTV's).
There are at least three at 110 (at least one is DirecTV's), and currently two at 61.5, one at 129, two at 77, and IIRC, two at 72.7, not to mention one at 118.7...
Dish Network satellites are name Echostar because that was the name of the company (founded by Charlie Ergan) that created the Dish Network service and brand. A few years ago, Dish Network was spun off from Echostar to become a separate company, but the satellites are still named Echostar even though Dish Network owns a few of the Echostar named satellites.
While Dish Network and Echostar are separate companies, Charlie Ergan, CEO of Dish Network and Chairman of both Dish Network and Echostar owns the parent company that holds Dish Network and Echostar. Most likely, the Dish Networked owned satellites retain the moniker of Echostar to maintain continuity for NORAD, as Dish Network is owned by the parent company that also owns Dish Network, the defense agency that monitors all satellites at all times (and anything else in the air or space) for national defense reasons.
DirecTV satellites originally had the moniker of "Hughes" because at that time DirecTV was owned by the Hughes corporation, later owned by GM. Later, Hughes decided to rename their sats with the moniker "DirecTV." Shortly thereafter, DirecTV was sold to NewsCorp. Similar moniker to "Echostar" was the old "Westar" moniker for the old Western Union satellites.
Echostar is the technology arm that develops and manufactures the set-top-boxes and software and designs and operates the fleet of satellites, while Dish Network is strictly the service end of the business.
The older boxes used to have the Echostar logo on them as well as the Dish Network logo. I miss the Echostar logo; I wouldn't mind at all if they put it back on all future boxes, especially now that Echostar is trying to promote its hardware.
While Dish Network and Echostar are separate companies, Charlie Ergan, CEO of Dish Network and Chairman of both Dish Network and Echostar owns the parent company that holds Dish Network and Echostar. Most likely, the Dish Networked owned satellites retain the moniker of Echostar to maintain continuity for NORAD, as Dish Network is owned by the parent company that also owns Dish Network, the defense agency that monitors all satellites at all times (and anything else in the air or space) for national defense reasons.
DirecTV satellites originally had the moniker of "Hughes" because at that time DirecTV was owned by the Hughes corporation, later owned by GM. Later, Hughes decided to rename their sats with the moniker "DirecTV." Shortly thereafter, DirecTV was sold to NewsCorp. Similar moniker to "Echostar" was the old "Westar" moniker for the old Western Union satellites.
Echostar is the technology arm that develops and manufactures the set-top-boxes and software and designs and operates the fleet of satellites, while Dish Network is strictly the service end of the business.
The older boxes used to have the Echostar logo on them as well as the Dish Network logo. I miss the Echostar logo; I wouldn't mind at all if they put it back on all future boxes, especially now that Echostar is trying to promote its hardware.
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This is pretty cool if you want to visualize what is up there and where.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/launch/980031_001.pdf
I'm alway amused
Whenever I see these charts. I'm amused looks a lot like a roulette wheel with a missing chunk. The missing part of course is the Pac Ocean since there is almost no one in that area. Just waxing here a bit I wonder if this makes the earth wobble just a little bit?
Whenever I see these charts. I'm amused looks a lot like a roulette wheel with a missing chunk. The missing part of course is the Pac Ocean since there is almost no one in that area. Just waxing here a bit I wonder if this makes the earth wobble just a little bit?
Perhaps, but the tiny weight of some satellites can't be having a huge impact. I saw this yesterday however!
China's Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
This is poor physics. The Earth's center of gravity will change but the effective diameter will remain unchanged as the oceans will shift to even things out.
ps: it is bad form to omit the W in 119W.
pps: I think it bad form to refer to a slot as "The 119W" (akin to Californians calling Interstate 5 "The Five") as there are multiple satellites there.
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But there is only one 119W position, so it is "The 119W" meaning the "The 119 degrees west satellite slot", even though many satellites can live there - similar to the way it is called "The City of the Angels", even though many people can live there.
At least "Angels" infers plural.
Actually, anything within .25 degrees or so of 119W is said to be "at" 119W.
