Nimiq 5 Launch Scheduled for September 18

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On Schedule for Sept 17 launch. Satellite and Breeze M have been enclosed in final assembly and are being attached to the Proton. Entire assembly will be moved to fueling station this weekend for fueling of Breeze M.

Testing will take place at 82W. Movement to geostationary at 82W, testing, and moving on to final 72W location will likely take several months. Probably in service sometime in December


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does any of this mean that Dish network will ever add Wichita KS to it's local HD lineup. It's really annoying me.
 
nelson61 said:
On Schedule for Sept 17 launch. Satellite and Breeze M have been enclosed in final assembly and are being attached to the Proton. Entire assembly will be moved to fueling station this weekend for fueling of Breeze M.

Testing will take place at 82W. Movement to geostationary at 82W, testing, and moving on to final 72W location will likely take several months. Probably in service sometime in December


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I don't think it will take that long to get Nimiq 5 operational because it is just a CONUS satellite. It should take about 7 - 10 days to get it to a geostationary orbit at 82 W and then probably about 2 - 3 weeks of testing. Another 7 - 10 days to get it to 72.7 W and transfer programming over from E-6. I would say November 1 by the latest. It is a bit suprising that Dish has not filed anything with the FCC about moving E-6 to another slot such as 61.5 W. I think Dish really needs to get some help for E-3 and E-12 at 61.5 W but perhaps Dish is negotiating with the FCC about holding on to the 148 W slot.
 
nelson61 said:
ILS bagged an extra launch today with Eutelsat getting a slot for mid November. About 2 months between contract signing and launch, This has to be close to a record for scheduling (must need it up there real bad) This all flows from the Sealaunch bankruptcy.
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They should reorganize successfully and come out strong. It's a delay of many months of operation, but their basic business plan is sound. I doubt they'll be dissolved.
 
whatchel1 said:
So both E14 & N-5 are going to be co-located at 72.7?
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No, E-14 is going to 119 W to replace/augment E-7 and Nimiq 5 is going to 72.7 W to replace E-6. For clarification of another post, Nimiq 5 testing at 82 W should not cause interference with the Canadian Bell service from that slot because they will be checking the CONUS beam not the Canadian beam on the satellite. They will probably test the Canadian beam once the satellite gets to 72.7 W since currently all the signals from the 72.7 W slot are for the U.S. not Canada.
 
rocatman said:
I don't think it will take that long to get Nimiq 5 operational because it is just a CONUS satellite. It should take about 7 - 10 days to get it to a geostationary orbit at 82 W and then probably about 2 - 3 weeks of testing. Another 7 - 10 days to get it to 72.7 W and transfer programming over from E-6. I would say November 1 by the latest. It is a bit suprising that Dish has not filed anything with the FCC about moving E-6 to another slot such as 61.5 W. I think Dish really needs to get some help for E-3 and E-12 at 61.5 W but perhaps Dish is negotiating with the FCC about holding on to the 148 W slot.
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Last I heard Dish plans to be using it by mid October.
 
Thanks

rocatman said:
No, E-14 is going to 119 W to replace/augment E-7 and Nimiq 5 is going to 72.7 W to replace E-6. For clarification of another post, Nimiq 5 testing at 82 W should not cause interference with the Canadian Bell service from that slot because they will be checking the CONUS beam not the Canadian beam on the satellite. They will probably test the Canadian beam once the satellite gets to 72.7 W since currently all the signals from the 72.7 W slot are for the U.S. not Canada.
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Thanks for the clarification. I didn't it made a lot of sense to put it up w/ another brand new sat.
 
rocatman said:
For clarification of another post, Nimiq 5 testing at 82 W should not cause interference with the Canadian Bell service from that slot because they will be checking the CONUS beam not the Canadian beam on the satellite. They will probably test the Canadian beam once the satellite gets to 72.7 W since currently all the signals from the 72.7 W slot are for the U.S. not Canada.
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But isn't there some bleed over across the boarder? And don't most Canadians live along the boarder? Will the perhaps point it a bit extra south? Still, it might cause trouble for the scattered US subs of Bell.
 
Things are picking up speed. FCC placed the Nimiq 5 license on public notice today (9/15). License has to issue before Nimiq 5 can be put into commerical (US) service.
 
nelson61 said:
Things are picking up speed. FCC placed the Nimiq 5 license on public notice today (9/15). License has to issue before Nimiq 5 can be put into commerical (US) service.
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Spectrum 5 will probably file a protest that it could interfere with one of their phantom satellites... :eek:
 

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