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Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit
BBC ^
| 23 August 2014
Posted on 08/23/2014 1:31:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The European Space Agency (Esa) says the latest two satellites for Europe's version of the American GPS satellite navigation system have not gone into the correct orbit.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: eu; europeanspace
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Better luck next time?
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:31:45 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
The agency [ESA] is examining the implications of the anomaly.
Ah, it's just an anomaly ... not to worry.
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:34:53 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Maybe they can fix the problem with the orbits ....
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:37:35 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: DUMBGRUNT
Maybe they can fix the problem with the orbits ....
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:37:35 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: DUMBGRUNT
Shoulda installed a GPS on the satellite.
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:38:14 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: DUMBGRUNT
You’ll have to wait until NASA finishes it’s muslim feel good tour
To: DUMBGRUNT
That’s because they used the metric system. If they had used the King’s measurements, their satellites would be where they wanted them.
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posted on
08/23/2014 1:42:27 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: DUMBGRUNT
A Soyuz rocket?
Is Vladimir Putin sending a thinly veiled message to the ESA and NASA and the International Space Station?
To: DUMBGRUNT
So if you set your European GPS to take you from London to Liverpool you wind up in the English Channel.
To: JennysCool
“Shoulda installed a GPS on the satellite.”
:)
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:11:06 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Ken522
“Maybe they can fix the problem with the orbits ..”
If they are way off, they probably don’t have enough fuel to do it, or, it would take longer than the satellites would even function.
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:12:37 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
The Caliphate is demanding all Galileo satellites be destroyed as they may interfere with the Moon’s orbit and effect their lunar calendar cycle.
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:15:45 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Barack Obama:Misbegotten, Bastard Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:34:38 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: Ken522
If they cannot fix this, how much $$ are they out?
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:37:47 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:38:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ronnie raygun
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posted on
08/23/2014 2:52:14 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
08/23/2014 4:02:26 PM PDT
by
Waywardson
(I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
To: Waywardson
Spacex had a test rocket explode yesterday. (But they’d still be much better than the Russians.)
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posted on
08/23/2014 4:04:43 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: JennysCool
Shoulda installed a GPS on the satellite. I have read your response three or four times and still, I laugh each time!
VERY GOOD!
To: Gay State Conservative
So if you set your European GPS to take you from London to Liverpool you wind up in the English Channel. Methinks that is a far better outcome than with the Glonass (Russian) system.
Give it a try and let us know.
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