E11 at 115. E8 has moved a little east to make room and those on the fringe of the fringe may be seeing some signal loss without re-pointing.
GAME ON! Echostar XI successfully reaches Geo-synchronous Transfer orbit!
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In other words "Nothing much to see here" from the ballet unless something goes terribly awry.
Well right now it's on 10.76 will it stop in 10.00 exactly?
since echo star X is on 10.17 right now??
since echo star X is on 10.17 right now??
It's about 150km below geostationary orbit at last report. That is why is is drifting east at 2 degrees/day. As they boost it up, it slows down and if raised above geo, it reverses direction and will drift west. They will need a couple of days of altitude adjustments to move it into final position.
I suspect 2 things. They can't stop on a dime and this has to do with the increasing altitude, overcompensating with a resulting altitude change bringing them back to 110
The keps may be stale now too and they need new keps for it set at 110. Either way they'll get it where it needs to be if it isn't already there.. 
"Live" tracking is not really live, but is based on a TLE. If they have an old TLE, it will still show movement. Wait to you see one dated for today or later.
Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it.
Thanks.1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375
Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it.
1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375
To get just the date is pretty easy. look at the 3rd group of numbers (aside from the line identifier, before the decimal point. 08233 The first 2 digits represent the year (2008), the three following represent the day of the year, in this case 233, which was August 20th, yesterday.
So yes, Echostar 11 could easily be at 110.0, or at least very close. When they will start doing stuff with it, that's another question.
Can you point me to an append or sat site that breaks down the contents of the TLE. The only one I have is below from the n2yo.com site and if there's a date in the numbers.. well I can't see it.
1 33207U 08035A 08233.33420667 -.00000123 00000-0 00000+0 0 434
2 33207 000.0340 335.3072 0002058 172.8843 189.5575 01.00820432 375
format, etc can be found at the Celestrak site.
Julian calendar. I shouda seen it! Thanks.
Thanks for the site listing!
