Yep I just got the call, Good news indeed. From what Im told is it went very well and they dont think anything is wrong with the sat (nock on wood) But we will find out when the begin testing within the next few hours after deployment.
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Yep I just got the call, Good news indeed. From what Im told is it went very well and they dont think anything is wrong with the sat (nock on wood) But we will find out when the begin testing within the next few hours after deployment.
Should be in operation come October 1st, if what I read else where is true. Short 2 weeks time to test it.
Remember that Dish plans to start using this bird on Ocober 15th, they are going to have a quick turnaround on this bird. 
I'm hopeful it's so E6 can quickly head over to 61.5 and Dish can launch some more HD by the beginning of November.
Well, who knows, the bird itself does no good for those of us not aimed at it; e.g. 110/119/61.5 guys like myself.
I would imagine that this sat was being built and scheduled before the AMC-15 disaster so Dish probably had plans for it consistent with having a whole suite of new birds in place (61.5, 110, 119 and 129). Whether they have changed those plans (or could change those plans) to allow more national HD is anyone's guess.
It helps western arc because they have to have space on both arcs to launch channels. They do not want the situation of a channel only being available to some customers. E3 is losing TPs, cutting down on capacity of the EA, they need E6 to go over and fill in the gaps until E3's replacement gets up there again.
It sounds like you live in a parallel universe to our own, where Dish never provided HD local channels to customers.
In our universe, in order to do that, they created two separate systems, one largely for the Eastern half and one largely for the Western half.
Nothing Dish has done for the past year or two - in terms of satellites - has had anything to do with "National HD" which only represents a tiny fraction of the bandwidth that Dish will need by 2013.
Non-sequiturs seem to be your specialty.
First, in my universe dishes pointed at one location don't get signals from another.
Second, although you may have trouble connecting the dots, my post was in response to someone else asking about "National HD".
And if you think that you know what Dish's intentions were with their new satellites as regards "National HD" you're not only wrong, you sound silly.
Friday 9/18 8:23 Mountain Daylight Epoch
2009-050A
1 35873U 09050A 09261.60000000 -.00000087 00000-0 00000+0 0 35
2 35873 12.9660 295.1090 4548841 359.6390 88.0300 1.75731127 22
Current Estimate:
35834 KM X 9434 KM
8.5 degrees Inclination
2009-050A
1 35873U 09050A 09261.60000000 -.00000087 00000-0 00000+0 0 35
2 35873 12.9660 295.1090 4548841 359.6390 88.0300 1.75731127 22
Current Estimate:
35834 KM X 9434 KM
8.5 degrees Inclination
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Since there seems to be some confusion about what a TLE represents, here's a reference:
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data
TLEs are not measurements at a particular moment in time (as suggested by the "realtime" reference above) but rather they are mathematical models of the path of satellites. You should note that there are no coordinates involved in a TLE. The date referred to in the TLE is the beginning effectivity date of the model and not necessarily a snapshot of where the satellite was at that time.
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data
TLEs are not measurements at a particular moment in time (as suggested by the "realtime" reference above) but rather they are mathematical models of the path of satellites. You should note that there are no coordinates involved in a TLE. The date referred to in the TLE is the beginning effectivity date of the model and not necessarily a snapshot of where the satellite was at that time.
Since there seems to be some confusion about what the word "estimate" means here is a reference.
estimate - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
As long they don't have a replay of Nimiq2 we will be good to go
Can you refresh our memories re: what happened with Nimiq 2?
A malfunction just a month or two after launch caused it to lose some power. It can only operate 26 out of it's 32 TPs. That is one of the reasons Bell had to lease DirecTV satellites.
E6 at 61.5 will help Dish a lot with locals. E12 (old rainbow1) has to have some transponders in CONUS mode instead of spot since E3 has a bunch of dead TPs. Once E6 is over to pick up these dead TPs, E12 can switch more TPs to spots. This will help with locals a lot. I would not be surprised to even see some CONUS HD LiLs from 77 move to 61.5 spot.
I speculate they will do more CONUS and more spot. They will turn some E12 TPs to spots, picking up secondary stations in markets they already carry and adding new markets and moving markets from 77. They will also have some CONUS left over on 61.5 and free up some on 77. They have a deadline approaching for more LiL markets to have all stations carried in HD. They will have to work to fill out markets with what they have before risking another satellite failure.
I speculate they will do more CONUS and more spot. They will turn some E12 TPs to spots, picking up secondary stations in markets they already carry and adding new markets and moving markets from 77. They will also have some CONUS left over on 61.5 and free up some on 77. They have a deadline approaching for more LiL markets to have all stations carried in HD. They will have to work to fill out markets with what they have before risking another satellite failure.
Very quiet on the FCC filings regarding E6. We can all hope it has nothing to do with their informing FCC they were going to review all satellites fuel status after their Echostar 5 fiasco. There, they used up the last of remaining fuel moving it to 148W while thinking they had another year's supply of fuel remaining. Something to do with component fuel pressures and the inability to accurately measure the ratio of fuel components remaining.
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