Greg Williams wrote: > An Ariane 5 rocket will place 2 geo sat's into orbit tonight. > > Wildblue 1 is going to 111 degrees West > > Amc 18 is going to 105 degrees West > > > > Webcast at > > http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en > > Launch Window opens at 22:08 UTC ( Dec 8 ) > > Wildfeeds: Anyone have sat coordinates for C-band viewers? >
3851 V Vpid: 308 Apid: 256 SR: 8190 Subject: [Wildfeeds] Ariane 5 / WildBlue 1 & AMC-18 Launch Coverage Friday (12-8) @ 4:45pm ET. AMC-9 Trans 8C-Band (3851 V) DVB Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:39:36 -0800 To: Medianews <[email protected]>,Satellite TV Wild Feeds List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Tom & Darryl Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,TVRO Newsgroup <[email protected]>, TVRO Talk Newsgroup <[email protected]>,WildFeeds List <[email protected]> Arianespace this Friday (12-8)is set to attempt the final launch for the year of a Ariane 5 ECA (v.174) with WildBlue 1 for WildBlue communications and AMC-18 for SES Americom, from ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana, South America. Launch is set for 5:08 p.m. EST. with a window extending to 5:51 p.m. EST. Spacecraft separation for WildBlue-1 is expected 27 minutes after lift off and 32 minutes after liftoff for AMC-18. WildBlue-1, the first satellite to be totally dedicated to broadband Internet services. is a FS 1300 buss model built by Space Systems Loral, has 35 geographical spot beams. WildBlue-1 will be located at 111 degrees West. AMC-18 built by Lockheed Martin, is a A 2100 buss model with 24 Cband transponders. AMC-18 will be located at 105 degrees West. DVB Broadcast coverage: AMC-9 at 83.0°W transponder 8C (3851 V) SR: 10.000 Testing at 2:05 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. EST. Broadcast starts around 4:45 p.m. EST. If you dont have a dish, there will be a live webcast of the launch available at: http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en Additional coverage at: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v174/status.html http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_index.html http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_launchkit_index.html -- Dishnut-P ==================================================================== Operator of RadioFree Dishnuts - Producer of The Dishnut News heard Saturdays at 10pm EST. on RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network IA-6 (T6) Transponder 1 / 6.2 & 6.8Mhz (4DTV T6-999) 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/ **In Loving Memory of Mom (Dishnut Gerry)** _______________________________________________ Wildfeeds mailing list [email protected] http://twiar.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfeeds_twiar.org Send unsubscribe request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://twiar.org/pipermail/wildfeeds_twiar.org
