Wasn't there supposed to be a camera on Echostar 11 that would let us see the Earth? What happened to it?
Echostar 11 Camera
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It's there. The last tech forum showed a image from it. But it is broadcast in the TT&C frequencies that we don't get. I don't think they are planing on using standard downlink frequencies for this.
A was a shot of a monitor showing a shot of the earth. I can't find a screen shot, but it looked something like this
only displayed on a monitor and not including infrared.
Cool, but just a picture of the earth from GEO.
only displayed on a monitor and not including infrared.
Cool, but just a picture of the earth from GEO.
I was sent a picture from it awhile ago. It wasnt in color like the above one. In fact I was disappointed with the way it looked. If I can find it I will post it.
I wish the camera would be of a little better quality then, and the camera was motorized so it could like turn and maybe show neighbor satellites, if they were close enough. But I doubt they would be. It could be an interesting sight, to see a satellite at work like this in orbit. Nobody ever seen this before. I mean you know it's there, but nobody has ever seen a satellite stationed in orbit.
We had a thread dedicated the camera's stream - find it and you'll have full info. It's NOT TT&C - it's Dish normal channel !
From the distance of EchoStar 11, the Space Station would be a tiny white dot slightly separate from the Earth, that would appear every 1 1/2 hours.
That too would be extremely cool to see that perspective; even if you could only see the other sats occupying roughly the same location (Echo 10, Wildblue 1, Anik F2).
Sats may be the size of a bus, but they are at least 75 miles away from each other. Hard to see something even that size .
Here is what things would look like with the sats a little exaggerated size-wise.
Sats may be the size of a bus, but they are at least 75 miles away from each other. Hard to see something even that size .
Here is what things would look like with the sats a little exaggerated size-wise.
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or even a replacement for the inaccurate "you have a dish500" (since you might have a dedicated dish for 110, or some variation of dish1000)
Yeah, I remember the picture - junk around Earth. I thought it was computer model, those objects is relatively small with Earth of the size.
