AMOS 5 IS GONE FOR GOOD

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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.

which 1 be magechoice in amos

it's a channel located in Ghana they r offering live football n others for a fee as soon as they lunch dis year

Enjoyed when it last nani

I AM USING WIZTECH DECODER, IT'S HD MACHINE, PLS HOW CAN I USE IT TO TRACK SES5 . I MEAN WHATS THE SATELITE NAME SO I CAN IDENTIFY IT AND THEN TRACK OTHERWISE SOMEONE SHOULD HELP ME WITH THE SATELLITE NAME ON STRONG SRT 4663X DECODER SO I TRACK USING MY STRONG DECODER, I AM WAITING FOR HELP . THANKS

Used any satellites name yo track but if its degree of satellite you need
Its 4.8° east

Amos will still be ok

Keep dreaming

people had better move on

isaac311 wrote:

people had better move on

we already do that bro
16degree good nw with mega choice channels

only the language barrier at 26 east.but still its a consolation to Amos 5

hey yah

ancl wrote:

isaac311 wrote:

people had better move on

we already do that bro
16degree good nw with mega choice channels

Mega choice we make us return our dish back to that direction

Didn't see this megachoice o

Is megachoice on now?

Am not sure because am not on it

Ok! they were offline yesterday

Back and better

Frequency for megachoice

All is for Good

Dead sat

instead of fixing it they are launching amos6

Yeye peoples

mega is off and on

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