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- 6. February 2012: The NYG's won Superbowl, Madonna was awesome, Mathew Broderick Commercial ...
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Zombie Satellite Turns Disruptive In Rural Alaska [SatNews.com, and others…]
Zombie Satellite Turns Disruptive In Rural Alaska
Image credit: Orbital Sciences/Intelsat 18 rendering[SatNews] The wayward satellite, nicknamed 'zombie' satellite by some because of its non response to directions and signals, may create some periodic loss of long-distance telephone and Internet service later this week for up to 35,000 people in rural Alaska.The Galaxy 15 is operated by Intelsat a European company. The satellite malfunctioned in April and has been wandering toward other satellites, interfering with their signals, hence the moniker.According to a General Communications Inc. spokesman David Morris the outages are expected to start Wednesday morning and continue until Saturday, and will last from 90 minutes to more than five hours. GCI estimates 4,000 residents and 1,000 businesses could briefly lose communications, meaning that ATMs will be offline and stores won't be able to process credit cards during the outages.
* and ...
http://www.aolnews.com/tech/article/zombie-satellite-wins-first-round-against-the-humans/19467813
(May 6) — Just as in “Night of the Living Dead,” its brain is gone but it continues on a path of destruction.
Believed to have been hit by a solar storm in April, a commercial satellite called Galaxy 15 is drifting out of its original orbit, raising concerns about threats to other satellites. It’s been dubbed a “zombie satellite” because the solar storm essentially scrambled its brain by frying the electronics.
Zombie satellites are nothing new, but what makes the case of Galaxy 15 unique is that the Intelsat-owned satellite isn’t responding to commands from Earth, yet still is transmitting a signal. That makes it dangerous — not so much because it risks running into other satellites (while possible, the chances of that are small), but because it can interfere with their signals.
See also video:
(Note: This is a May 4th 2010 video... I know this, and now it is August, but the point of what the Zombie Satellite can do to other satellites is the same.)
AGI - AMC-11/SES-1 Avoidance Maneuvers
This is supposedly how SES Americom was to maneuver AMC-11 and SES-1 to avoid the Galaxy-15 Zombie Satellite
Note: I don’t know for sure, but it doesn’t appear from online reading that the Alaska-based satellite service was able to do similar satellite maneuvering to avoid the Galaxy-15 bird … I guess they were just screwed? Does anyone know how that turned out?
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Alan Spicer
DBA Alan Spicer Telcom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom
Computer Services, Wired/Wireless Networking,
Cell/Sat/Landline Communications, General Consulting…
Marine, Business, Small Office and Home Office (SOHO)
* Cost Savings and Integration of Multiple Internet Technologies
on board Sail and Motor Yachts * Documentation, Operating
Instructions, and Support after the Sale *
* http://www.marinetelecom.net/
* http://www.internetforyachts.net/
* http://www.wifiyacht.net/
* 954-683-3426
Mobile Internet! Step up to the HSPA 3G Fast Internet!
Ericsson W35 released in the USA. This you’ve gotta SEE!!
Better looking presentation than W25 (you might not want to
hide this one in the Doghouse!) + High Speed Upload which
the W25 did not have.
http://www.marinetelecom.net/Ericsson_W35/
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