I wonder why bother (unless the mission is shortened due to wrong orbit on launch or premature failure of certain components on a satelite). In 15 years time, technology advances quite a bit, so satellites should be replaced every 15 years or so to take advantage of technology. I'd hate to think how so-so my home reception would be if they kept refueling the sats that I was receiving in the 1980's. Under 12 or so years of service lifetime, satellites should be refueled such as in this article to allow them to try to provide the satellite operator 15 years of revenue service (and maybe even reduce insurance premiums if you can refuel shorter-life sats to provide 15 years of service and not have to go to the insurance companies in those cases). ----- Original Message ---- From: Kevin Fetter <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: seesat-l@satobs.org Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:09:10 AM Subject: SOS: How to Save an Old Satellite Looks like geo sat's will last a little longer. http://www.space.com/news/070911_ap_old_satellites.html Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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