AMOS 5 IS GONE FOR GOOD

Israel’s Amos-5 satellite went dark on November 21st with its owner Spacecomconfirming last week that it could not communicate with the spacecraft. Spacecom said that it had attempted to re-connect with the satellite, at its 17 degrees East orbital location. Ground observation, via powerful telescopes, confirmed that the satellite was still at itsnominal position. The satellite was launched in December 2011, so was barely one-third into its operating life of some 15 years.All satellites come – sooner or later – to an end-of-life. The normal situation is that the dying satellite maintains some on-board fuel so that ground engineers can use these final fuel supplies to boost it out of its normal geostationary orbit of 35,786 kms (22,236 miles) above the Equator. This final firing of the satellite’s thrusters is designed to lift the craft at least another 300 kms higher, and thus well out of the way of its orbiting neighbours.Indeed, since 2002 it has been a formal requirement that geostationary satellites are lifted into a so-called ‘graveyard’ orbit.But these rules cannot now be applied to Amos-5 which is slowly drifting as an uncontrollable “zombie” satellite. The problem is further compounded by the fact that the satellite will come extremely close to a number of near neighbours as its drifts away from 17 degrees East.A similar situation occurred back in April 2010 when an Intelsat-owned craft (Galaxy-15) went wrong and would not listen to controls from its ground technicians. However, the Galaxy-15 wasa true ‘zombie’ in that it continued transmitting. As it drifted from its official home of 133 degrees West it collected signals uplinked from the Earth and powerfully beamed them back to the ground.As the drift continued it moved perilously close to a number of other satellites, including SES-owned AMC-11, each of which were deliberately moved out of the way. At one point it was said that the Zombie had come within 5 kms of AMC-11, which is significantly too close.However, this particular story had a happy ending. By December 2010 the Galaxy-11’s on-board batteries had exhausted themselves and so the satellite – as they engineers had hoped –went into a safety mode, and had switched itself off, and in simple terms had re-booted its systems.The technology worked, and the satellite again started ‘listening’ to its ground bosses. It was the perfect Christmas present, not just for Intelsat’s talented team but for the other worried and hard working engineers who could now start sleeping at night. Following in-orbit testing by October 2012 the errant satellite was back working at its proper home, of 133 degrees West.Unfortunately, this solution is not likely for Amos-5. If, as it seems, the satellite iscompletely dead it will just continue to drift. And as it drifts through the Clarke Belt (named after Arthur C Clarke) the satellites in its path will just have to get out of its way – and use up precious fuel in the process.

we had the thread for this already

Too much tech language.....

Pls what else can i use a 90cm dish track since amos is gone?

go for ses 5 because most channels are migrating there

obenar wrote:

go for ses 5 because most channels are migrating there

you are absolutely right even Sony Sab has join the free goodies there too

obenar wrote:

go for ses 5 because most channels are migrating there

pls give me the tp

SES 5 reigning for now

use this tp 11919 h 27500

Arbourboateng wrote:

obenar wrote:

go for ses 5 because most channels are migrating there

you are absolutely right even Sony Sab has join the free goodies there too

exactly i saw it yesterday and on top of that the real Etv is fta 12011 H 27499

They r adding more channels

with combination of Astra 4.8 Ses 5 and Eutelsat 7e you will be able to nab over 80 channels. what a consolation to amos 5

for 7e use this muvi tp 0928H30000 then use TP 12015V29995to nab Ses5, balance both signals to kill all 3 satellites.

obenar wrote:

for 7e use this muvi tp 0928H30000 then use TP 12015V29995to nab Ses5, balance both signals to  kill all 3 satellites.

with one dish?

phemmy008 wrote:

obenar wrote:

for 7e use this muvi tp 0928H30000 then use TP 12015V29995to nab Ses5, balance both signals to  kill all 3 satellites.

with one dish?

exactly so

pls Ses 5 is in which direction pls,i need help pls my fellow brothers.

obenar wrote:

with combination of Astra 4.8 Ses 5 and Eutelsat 7e you will be able to nab over 80 channels. what a consolation to amos 5

pls give me the tps now and is it with one dish for all this?

they are already on top of this post

they are already on top of this post

pls i still need tips on how to track Ses 5 i want 2 know exactly d direction, pls house.

obenar wrote:

go for ses 5 because most channels are migrating there

which one is ses 5? I tried strong and qsat but couodnt get it... Pls help in a lame man tutorial

obenar wrote:

for 7e use this muvi tp 0928H30000 then use TP 12015V29995to nab Ses5, balance both signals to kill all 3 satellites.

Dish size please?

Pls house can one track ses5 with 60cm dish?

yes u can but few channels will be gotten

smile2012 wrote:

yes u can but few channels will be gotten

exactly. first track Eutelsat 7e then input the ses 5 tp.after that try to lower your dish to balance all the birds.for best results try to use 90cm.

now for those who want to know where to face the dish here is a simple trick.Where there is your amos 5 dish. i prefer standing behind your dish then move to left side.then pull it down abit.thats where ses5 is

nice one

nice one

Oga smile can u inbox me ya number pls.

okay boss...I will do so

thanks boss

U r always welcomed

Any hope for this bird

no hope yet,

hope ke

chejuli wrote:

chejuli wrote:

obenar wrote:

for 7e use this muvi tp 0928H30000 then use TP 12015V29995to nab Ses5, balance both signals to kill all 3 satellites.

Dish size please?

Managed to track both. Now enjoying E?? and Amc

Easy like that

Nice info

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

on amos 5 or where if i may ask?

phemmy008 wrote:

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

on amos 5 or where if i may ask?

You see the answer already nw above
3° west

And just like that it is gone
The hummingbird went away
Wonder if it will come back and sing again!

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

Good job ancl, star movies one of my favorite but just up and flew away.

You can track it with 60m dish

Is Star movies FTA?

chejuli wrote:

Is Star movies FTA?

Yes for now

Iyke Philip wrote:

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

Good job ancl, star movies one of my favorite but just up and flew away.

Failed to nail it using that frequency. Is it still active?

chejuli wrote:

Iyke Philip wrote:

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

Good job ancl, star movies one of my favorite but just up and flew away.

Failed to nail it using that frequency. Is it still active?

Its active bro, i used my amos5 dish for it
I just loss the dish at back turn it to west the same way my amos5 dish stand backward to west side and lift the dish up and signal come out

ancl wrote:

chejuli wrote:

Iyke Philip wrote:

ancl wrote:

Star movies n co is back

11150v45000

3°w just below zuku, starsat, etv or ovhd then turn slightly on your left when you are behind the dish.

it has bn well confirmed n established. It has 26 channels, only that tp works for now

Good job ancl, star movies one of my favorite but just up and flew away.

Failed to nail it using that frequency. Is it still active?

Its active bro, i used my amos5 dish for it
I just loss the dish at back turn it to west the same way my amos5 dish stand backward to west side and lift the dish up and signal come out

Name the sat abi i should just input this tp anywhere?