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To: Valueman who wrote (4930)	12/1/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: Mr. Adrenaline	Read Replies (1) of 10852

No power during eclipse means no attitude control, or any other bus function during eclipse. That is bad. It does not mean the end of the world, just the end of the world as they now know it. There are things they can do, but none of them are very palatable. They would need to ready the satellite for safe "storage" prior to every eclipse, and then wake it up from a brain dead situation after eclipse. Eclipses happen daily in March and September. From a continuity of service point of view, there would be none around 4 hours or so centered around local midnight. Waking up a satellite from being "brain dead" is no trivial task, either. I don't know Hughes' satellites, but I would be very surprised if there were not a legion of things that would be required in RAM that would not be present at a power on default configuration. That means a bunch of uploads into RAM before you could even get the payload Earth pointing. Bottom line -- it is possible to still "use it" but from a logistics point of view, it is likely to be no longer revenue generating starting next eclipse season. Mr A

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