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Mysterious source jams satellite communications (Eutelsat)
NewScientist.com news service ^
| 1/26/2007
| David Shiga and AFP
Posted on 01/26/2007 9:42:33 AM PST by Rio
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Lots of satellite news lately. I wonder how much of it is related.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:42:34 AM PST
by
Rio
To: Rio
Chinese testing alternative methods of knocking them out of service...? or us...?!! :-)
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:44:09 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: bicyclerepair
The French will apologize to the Chinese for having a satellite in their way.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:46:08 AM PST
by
unkus
To: theDentist
Capt.midnight strikes again????
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:48:20 AM PST
by
bikerman
(Loud pipes save lives)
To: Rio
"...it just seems to me to be an odd target, unless someone's ticked off at the French" Hah! That could be a very long list of suspects.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:52:01 AM PST
by
Unmarked Package
(Amazing surprises await us under cover of a humble exterior.)
To: unkus
"The French will apologize to the Chinese for having a satellite in their way."
After agreeing to terms of surrender.
To: Rio
Iran is probably doing it! Be afraid! Very very afraid!
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:54:32 AM PST
by
bluebeak
To: Rio
nuclear EMP weapons test! no doubt!
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:55:59 AM PST
by
bluebeak
To: bikerman
Maybe something else. I worked for a telcom outfit that used a lot of satellite BW for its business.
We called some interfencr the "OJ effect" Where SNG (news trucks) would rush to a breaking story and light up the transmitter and sweep it across the sky until they hit the 'right' bird.
Another issue, unless these folks are the only users, another transponder user could (on crosspol) up their power and cause the other users to disappear to ground stations.
While satcom has been around for a long time, it does have it quirks....the funniest (to me) is the twice annual outages at equinox and how the cable companies try to explain away the outages to their customer base.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:58:06 AM PST
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: Rio
I have a theory...The Chinese were knocked out too, just not mentioning it.
We did it as a cold-war style response to thier anti-sat missile stunt last week. we took out Europe as well to eleimnate any doubt to the Chinese about the source.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:58:31 AM PST
by
SENTINEL
(USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
To: unkus
Bullseye... The ChiComms are testing more of their new satellite weaponry and they know the French are too weak and pacifist to do anything about an attack on one their sats, so they attacked a French satellite.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:59:33 AM PST
by
navyguy
(We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
To: navyguy
The French should bring their satellites home! How many more satellites will die because of their involvement in space?!
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posted on
01/26/2007 10:01:51 AM PST
by
bluebeak
To: Rio
To: Rio
I remember this one time when Lonestar used raspberry jam on the Spaceball's radar...
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posted on
01/26/2007 10:04:22 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Alec Baldwin is not a real actor, but he plays one on TV.)
To: Rio
The 'yutes' are still not happy with the free housing being built for them, they want free internet access and cable television installed also. ;)
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posted on
01/26/2007 10:06:22 AM PST
by
Just sayin
(Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
To: KevinDavis
To: theDentist
Why would you test it on a French satellite? You'd test it on one of your own, in order to keep it a secret.
More likely, the French just have a bad satellite design which is suseptible to interference.
To: theDentist
Why would you test it on a French satellite? You'd test it on one of your own, in order to keep it a secret.
More likely, the French just have a bad satellite design which is suseptible to interference.
To: ASOC
...the "OJ effect" Where SNG (news trucks) would rush to a breaking story and light up the transmitter and sweep it across the sky until they hit the 'right' bird. LOL - thanks for sharing.
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posted on
01/26/2007 10:11:45 AM PST
by
GOPJ
("feminists who got where they are by marrying men with power: Hillary.Pelosi.and John Kerry"-Coulter)
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