The email of 2 May was not distributed to the list owing to my earlier problems. The bounce message only took 4 days! So apologies for the long quotes to put the whole thing in context. Robert Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:22 AM Subject: Re: Repositioning of Optus B1 > An article in yesterday's newspaper finally shed light on what happened. > Unfortunately I cannot locate the article online. > > In a routine realignment manoeuvre (maneuver depending where you live!) > one of the rockets failed to cease firing. Therefore further > repositioning was necessary to get it back in place. > > The report also referred to rumours that Optus B1 was now running short > of fuel and likely to "die" soon, these were denied by the operator but > reference was also made to the impending launch of Optus D1 I don't have > the article in front of me, but from memory this was slated for around > August. > > Correction to position below: 174.948E > > Robert > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> > To: "Seesat List" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 11:54 PM > Subject: Repositioning of Optus B1 > > >> Optus B1 has been or is being repositioned and this disrupted coverage >> for many customers on a major television network here - it seems this was >> the sequence rather than the repositioning being made necessary because >> of loss of signal. >> >> Reports on this are quite confusing. One possible way of interpreting >> them is that repositioning has taken place but that re-alignment of the >> satellite antennas etc towards the target area was not possible because >> the solar cells were drained by the solar eclipse - the latter hardly >> being an unforeseen event! >> >> Robert >> Wainuiomata >> New Zealand >> 41.261S >> 147.948E >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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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