good article Kevin. I hope my comments are not off the mark for this post. I read the IRIS is supplied by Cisco. I understand it uses the Ka band, and multiple antennas to beam larger amounts of data to multiple points on earth. I don't have the knowledge to understand how one would monitor its outputs. Ultimately, this technology would allow satellites to talk back and forth (which also means directly to US military aircraft) without communicating to ground stations, through IP. Also of interest is that the heat sinks on the CPUs (there are two routers in one for redundancy) will connect directly to space for cooling the box, about 18x18x20 inches. fredv ________________________________ From: Kevin Fetter <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: seesat-l@satobs.org Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:42:27 AM Subject: Intelsat 14, the satellite that will replace Intelsat 1R Picture of the Intelsat 14 geo sat, which will replace the Intelsat 1R geo sat :( http://www.ssloral.com/html/pressreleases/pr20090930.html Crappy antenna's, it has. Kevin __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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