Hi George, No , but I see what you mean .......that all conveyed completly wrong didnt it.... I was simply ruling them out on the basis that it was unlikely , although of course , still possible , that the bird could have taken a hit. By midnight last night , the satellite was starting to come back to life after a good deal of the traffic had been transferred to another part of the sky. I did try to image 10 east , but to do so had to Slot hop from 19 (seven sats ) to 13 E ( five sats) and by the time I got to 10 E.........a bank of cloud had swept in ( story of my life) Anyway as we await a statement from Eutelsat , it looks to me as though they did some excellent recovery work and have got their bird up an running again ! Quite an achievement ! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Roberts" <gr@pobox.com> To: "satcom" <john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk>; <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Cc: <fpspace@friends-partners.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:56 PM Subject: Re: Possible comms sat failure ? >> I'm also ruling out Perseids activity....as Persius is in complete >> opposition to the location of the birds. > > Are you saying the Earth is blocking the Perseids from hitting the > Satellite? I don't think so - it wouldn't be a satellite if it didn't > orbit > the earth. And if it orbits the earth then it can only be protected > by the earth from asteroids for half an orbit at the most and much > less for geo-stationaries. > > Perseids occur in all parts of the sky and are most visible straight > up. They do however travel in straight lines away from a point in > Perseus. > - George > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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