Saturday, January 1, 2011

Zombie Satellite

Sounds like something a bad movie, but a "zombie" satellite was designed to be fed back died recently.

    Galaxy 15 communications satellite into space broke this year and this week is restored. When he fell, are also a center transmits the communication is not established, tosatellite after the operator Intelsat.

    "Now we get Galaxy telemetry unit 15 orders the device baseband (BB) and satelliteis accept orders from the Earth", published in Intelsat FAQ on your site.

    The batteries were charged by satellite and the unit of solar energy.

    "Once the first test was conducted, we will try to catch and land blockade thesatellite stop the drift, " the company said. "This phase can take up to two weeks."

    For months, the operator could have not been able to take control of the Intelsat transmission signals and fears bats interfere with other satellites.

    "After the first tests on Galaxy 15 and stopped the trend of the satellite is expected to move the location of Intelsat satellite orbit in order to assess the feasibility of the payload and perform determine extensive testing in orbit around the functionality of all aspects of satellite , the company said in its FAQ page.

    If you decide that Intelsat Galaxy 15 is fully healed and the sustainable use could operate the equipment until 2020.

Share/Bookmark