On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:34:08PM -0800, Dale Ireland wrote: > Is this going to reduce the number of Basketball games available on TV at > any one time ??? Oh I hope so > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Fetter [mailto:kevin_fetter@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:44 PM > > To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org > > Subject: another geo sat bites the dust > > > > > > The ariane 5 launch today ended in failure. It was going to place two geo > > sats into orbit. The rocket lost speed and altitude a few minutes after > > lauch. So that's two more geo sats that failed to reach geo orbit. > > This is bad, that's three in such a short period of time, be > > interesting to > > hear what happened. I hate to say it, but with demand for satellite capacity very soft (fiber and digital video compression hits this market harder every day) this may have more to do with collecting from the insurance company for an asset that would lose money if in service than it does with real technical problems. Awfully easy to screw up something by not checking for it carefully... particularly if you don't really need the bird and bought and paid for it back two or three years ago when demand was strong and it looked like it would be loaded pretty fully and a money earner. And at $200M or more for the asset, it gets interesting to get it off the books at a good price... -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die@die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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