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kudos:5 |  And Sprint finally pulls plug on LS; but LS gets $65 million
Sprint Nextel Corp. will terminate a 15-year contract with billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. Friday and return $65 million in prepayments to the wireless start-up, according to people familiar with the plans.
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: And Sprint finally pulls plug on LS; but LS gets $65 million Are you in favor of that or just stating what will happen? If you favor it, can you help me understand why? | |
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kudos:5 | Re: And Sprint finally pulls plug on LS; but LS gets $65 million said by rradina:Are you in favor of that or just stating what will happen? If you favor it, can you help me understand why?
just stating what will happen | |
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| | New lawsuit pending.... I can see the headline now:
"LightSquared to sue the sun for causing interference to its Skyterra 1 satellite." | |
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Billings, MT | Re: New lawsuit pending.... I think they might sue the laws of physics first. | |
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kudos:5 | Sat communications has huge vulnerability to solar flares | |
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Canyon Country, CA | Re: Sat communications has huge vulnerability to solar flares CMEs travel relatively slowly. It takes hours to days for the plasma to arrive after a flare. Satellite operators can "feather" their PV arrays, shut down vulnerable activities up to and including going off the air until the energy subsides.
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| Re: Sat communications has huge vulnerability to solar flares There is no excuse for being caught unaware of a pending CME.
Being a hamradio operator I have always been interested in such events because of their effects on my radio transmissions. For more them 35 years I have been getting bulletins from the Space Weather Prediction Center concerning what the Sun is doing to the earth. These are the same bulletins Power Transmisson companies, NASA, Satellite operators, Airlines, and others get. Go to the link below you can sign up for the same alerts.
The Home page:
»www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html
Where to sign up:
»pss.swpc.noaa.gov/LoginWebForm.a···rvice%2f
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| | | | | Re: Sat communications has huge vulnerability to solar flares said by Transmaster:There is no excuse for being caught unaware of a pending CME.
being caught unaware isn't the same as not being negatively affected. that you can't guarantee. | |
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Canyon Country, CA | Solar Cycle 24 is the weakest since we started using satellites. Cycle 22 was flaring like crazy in the late '80s, and we had very crude CME prediction methods, but we survived. | |
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Tulsa, OK | Re: Sat communications has huge vulnerability to solar flares True, and although the Satellites weren't as powerful then as they are now... there's another saying.
They don't build 'em like they used to. Well, maybe they do.
You'd have to hope the components are first rate and excellently designed and tested, but these days... cost cutting.... well, you know how it goes.
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Tulsa, OK | Will this satellite have any potential uses? ... other then making a spectacular deorbit into the South Pacific. | |
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| | Hughesnet Karl Does not have his facts straight. Hughenet was not taken offline due to a solar flare.problem was at the NOC | |
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Billings, MT | Re: Hughesnet NOC communication to the satellite? | |
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| | Lies Lies Lies Lies for the last f'in time Karl, spaceway 3's outage was not because of a solar flare. it was equipment failure at their ground based network center. stop posting these made up assumptions | |
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