Sea-Launch has added a analog feed of this launch Thursday morning. Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul @ 63 degrees West, transponder 33 LOWER (11720.0 VERTICAL)
Dishnut-P wrote: > This upcoming Thursday morning (6-23), Sea Launch is scheduled to launch > Intelsat Americas 8 (Telstar 8 to most of us) communications satellite > for Intelsat on a Zenit-3SL rocket from the > > Odyssey Launch Platform positioned on the equator in the Pacific Ocean. > Launch window opens at 8:58 a.m. EDT. > > Spacecraft separation 29 minutes after lift off. > > Intelsat Americas 8 has 28 C-band and 36 Ku-band transponders, as well > as 24 Ka-band spot beams. Built on Space Systems/Loral's (SS/L)1300 bus, > the spacecraft has a total end-of-life power of 16 Kw. IA-8 is a > replacement for Telstar 4 at 89 degrees. > This is Sea Launch's fifth mission for Loral and the first with Intelsat. > > Broadcast coverage: > > (MPEG2 DIGITAL BROADCAST) > > IA-6 (Telstar 6) @ 93 degrees West, transponder K4/D9 Ku band (11818.5 > Mhz Horizontal) > Symbol Rate: 5.632 > Audio: Channel 1 = English Channel 2 = English > > Test signals start at 8 a.m. EDT. > Broadcast starts at 8:30 a.m. EDT. > > Don't have a dish, a webcast of launch is available at: > > http://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html > > Additional coverage at: > > http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/ia8/status.html > http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html > http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.html > -- Dishnut-P ================================================================ Operator of RadioFree Dishnuts - Producer of The Dishnut News heard Saturdays at 10pm EST. on RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network AMC-7 Transponder 5 / 7.50Mhz (4DTV W-7 973), WTND-LP 106.3, and many micro LPFM stations. http://dishnuts.net RFD Listen Links: http://dishnuts.net/#Listen Show Archives: (Partly Up) http://dishnuts.net/archive/ Community email addresses: Post message: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/TVRO Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TVRO/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
