| ViaSat-1 Assembly Complete With Launch Set for September Carlsbad, Calif. – ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has announced that construction of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite is complete and that the spacecraft is being prepared for shipment to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ViaSat-1 is now scheduled for launch by International Launch Services (ILS) aboard a Proton rocket during the last week in September.
»www.viasat.com/news/viasat-1-rea···eptember |
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| i though that they would launch in Aug but i noticed it still slow |
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| reply to DrStrangeLov
will i need a new modem and dish for viasat-1 |
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| Maybe you will not need a new dish, but you will probably need a new modem, TRIA and your dish will have to be repointed to the new satellite. |
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| reply to DrStrangeLov
Hi, with wildblue they want you to point to the South to get signal, do you know if the new sat will need to be picked up in South, or somewhere else?
Thanks, Ed |
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 dbirdmanPremium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
kudos:5 | If you live in the Northern hemisphere, all communications satellites of this sort will be to the South. If you lived in the Southern hemisphere they would all be North.
They are only exactly due south if you happen to be on the same longitude.
The current satellite is due south from the Arizona/New Mexico border and the new one will be due south from Las Vegas.
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| Thanks, Ed |
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