I just hope they don't screw up this too:
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/servlet/ib.page.FetchAttachment?attachment_key=-146515
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/servlet/ib.page.FetchAttachment?attachment_key=-146515
Request for Special Temporary Authority to Execute Controlled Re-Entry of AMC-14
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I guess because they're one of the parties involved:
"After consultations, EchoStar, Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of AMC-14, and SES Americom, the owner of the spacecraft (collectively, the "Parties") have concluded that repositioning AMC-14 into its original planned orbit is not commercially or economically sensible and have settled on the optimum approach to retire the satellite."
"After consultations, EchoStar, Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of AMC-14, and SES Americom, the owner of the spacecraft (collectively, the "Parties") have concluded that repositioning AMC-14 into its original planned orbit is not commercially or economically sensible and have settled on the optimum approach to retire the satellite."
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe it's just that Charlie has all the lawyers in DC tied up so SES asked them to do the paperwork?
Part of me wonders if this is a publicity stunt. We could fix and place it into orbit except for this patent legality. And of all days they file this document to rain pieces of space junk into the ocean on Earth Day.
Temporary Authority to execute a controlled re-entry, sounds permanent to me. Probably has to do with insurance settlement for Dish (assuming they bought their own policy).
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"Retirement of the satellite will involve a controlled atmospheric re-entry of the satellite in
an unpopulated area of the South Pacific. The de-orbit will be performed by a single re-entry
maneuver that will cause the satellite to leave its current orbit and enter a direct re-entry
trajectory. This re-entry maneuver might be preceded by a phasing maneuver whose purpose is to target a given impact zone."
Maybe the professor will be able to fix the transmitter with what's left after re-entry.
an unpopulated area of the South Pacific. The de-orbit will be performed by a single re-entry
maneuver that will cause the satellite to leave its current orbit and enter a direct re-entry
trajectory. This re-entry maneuver might be preceded by a phasing maneuver whose purpose is to target a given impact zone."
Maybe the professor will be able to fix the transmitter with what's left after re-entry.
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Maybe the professor will be able to fix the transmitter with what's left after re-entry.
:clapI didn't say it was coming down today. They just might get a few seasonal tree huggers on board
We don't know this. In fact, the document itself says otherwise. That patent stuff was speculation. And remember, the Russians said right off that it was a total failure and could not be put into the correct orbit.
Echostar probably filed since it was a satellite for their slot and they were going to have command and control of it at 61.5.
What if Echostar used AMC14 to take out one of Direct's birds by "accident?" Dish could be the HD Leader once again!!!!
DIRECTV should never have made that commercial with their new satellite bumping the others out of orbit, probably gave Dish ideas...
Maybe that bird will end up crashing into a datacentre... Sorry, the board got knocked offline by a mis-aimed sat!
IIRC, when the U.S. Navy shot down that bird a few months ago, they assured us that it was imperative that the bird HAD to be shot down. They said it was too dangerous to allow it to re-enter and burn up, because it still had a partial load of fuel. They claimed that it was necessary, and in no way was it being done to show off to the Chinese that we had the capability. I would think that if it was too dangerous to allow a bird with a partial load of fuel to de-orbit, that it would be WAY TOO dangerous to allow AMC-14, with it's full complement of fuel, to de-orbit. If the reasons they gave for shooting down the first bird were valid, then it's even more imperative that this bird be shot down as well... For God's sake, the safety of the people of earth is at stake! Unless of course, the Navy knows it got lucky on the first shot, and doesn't want to take a chance on missing with this one. 
Unless of course, the Navy knows it got lucky on the first shot, and doesn't want to take a chance on missing with this one. 
The reason that one was shot down was because it was a SPY Satellite and had highly classified spy technology on board.
To me that was the reason why they blew it up.
Now a communications satellite on the other hand, there is nothing top secret on it chances are it will burn up in reentry. If it don't then still no secrets gained by whoever finds what is left of it.
To me that was the reason why they blew it up.
Now a communications satellite on the other hand, there is nothing top secret on it chances are it will burn up in reentry. If it don't then still no secrets gained by whoever finds what is left of it.
