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Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:
Re: Starband.. --- POOF --- |
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Thanks to Liberal above, the following link confirms:
http://www.abcnewsabsat.com/home.html#ia7
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Intelsat has declared IA-7 "a total loss" according to Ramu Potarazu,
the Chief Operating Officer for Intelsat. They are not giving any
reason for the failure as of yet. At approx 0222 EST Sunday 11.28.04,
they had an electrical short of some kind on Bus 1 and eight minutes
later lost telemetry to the spacecraft according to Intelsat engineer
Kevin Maloy. There were no station-keeping maneuvers being done at the
time, Maloy said. IA-7 was located at 129 degrees West longitude.
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I wasn't able to get any information at all from starband today - I'm
not sure if they were swamped or maybe tech support wasn't called in on
sunday since there was nothing they could do. Last update was posted
early in the afternoon, with a 4 PM updated recording and that was it
for the day.
* tech support didn't answer earllier until phone battery literally
went dead from being on hold
* tech support then closed at 11:00 pm.
* starband.general not accessible
* discussion.starband.net not accessible
* waiting for an email response from starband.net tech support ticket,
but no reply as of yet.
I'm not sure whether to hope they can get us all moved to a new
satellite (GE4, or ???) or swtich to direcway. Also emailed robinb to
see if she was online, but with no reply yet. There's an upcoming
chat, but the chat server was also down today or maybe not accessible
from a non-starband system ... I'm not sure.
I'm thinking I might need to switch to a direcway professional or small
office setup before the snow comes here. |
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