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To: Jeff Vayda who wrote (6074)5/7/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Valueman  Read Replies (2) of 10852
 
There was no planning there Jeff. They have owned 16 Ku-band transponders on Mabuhay since Agila II was launched. They failed to mention the coordination issues that have plagued that bird, with it initially being at 144E, then having to move to 146E, where they were then forced to turn off 6(?) Ku band transponders because they were interfering with Superbird. That leaves us 10 Ku. Now go look at the coverage maps for the Ku-band transponders on Agila II and you will see it is not wide, and they do not reach the Hawaii gateway that Orion operates to hook customers directly to fiber. The bottom line is that they happened to own some transponders on an Asian satellite that were not being used and they might be able to put a few customers on. This bird will not be the internet handling machine that Orion 3 was going to be. It does not span the Pacific.
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