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Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:38 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Don Bradner" donbradner
The Hughes second satellite is what is referenced as Jupiter 1. It was launched several months ago. Their first satellite was Spaceway 3, which the 9000 uses.
Of course referring to any satellite as belonging, or not belonging to Hughes gets complicated. There was a time about 4 versions of Hughes in the past when most commercial satellites were Hughes. The Galaxy series was all Hughes-built and owned by a Hughes subsidiary. Many of the competitors satellites were designed and built by Hughes at the time.
Now they are part of Echostar, so technically the latest satellite is no longer owned by Hughes, it is owned by the parent company Echostar. even though it was designed and built by Hughes.
Hughes has enough capacity to absorb every one of their Ku-Band customers, and has actively tried to get everybody to switch. Look at Chester's story for an example. The problem is that there are a lot of Ku systems belonging to folks who need Conus connectivity, and there are a lot of long-term Ku leases, so it isn't going away any time soon. Outsourcing, though, makes a lot of sense.
On 3/24/2013 at 7:20 PM Barb Nolley wrote:
>Do you know when HughesNet plans to launch their 2nd satellite?
>
>I thought perhaps they had, when I heard they outsourced the Ku-band
>services .... having a second satellite means not having to continue to
>lease transponders on other satellites, to avoid line-of-sight issues that
>lose the customer. ;-)
>
>Take care,
>Barb
>http://www.MobileInternetSatellite.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: RVInternetBySatellite@yahoogroups.com
>[mailto:RVInternetBySatellite@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Don Bradner
>Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:02 PM
>To: RVInternetBySatellite@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [RVInternetBySatellite] New system
>
>Chester, there is one, and one only, satellite for the Gen4 service and the
>HT1000 modem. It is Echostar 17, also known as Jupiter 1, located at
>107.1W.
>
>There are some technical issues wtih pointing a Ka-Band dish, but they are
>not insurmountable. The problem is that the service uses very small spot
>beams. If you move out of the spot-beam to which you are assigned it will
>not matter how good you are at pointing, or what you do in terms of
>registration/commissioning, the beam will not recognize you and you will
>not
>get on. Period. It will require dealer involvement to get you moved to a
>new
>beam.
>
>It sounds like someone also has told you that you could change satellites
>on
>your own with the 7000 service, and if someone did tell you that they were
>very much wrong.
>
>
>
>------------------------------------
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
Don Bradner
www.arcatapet.net
Of course referring to any satellite as belonging, or not belonging to Hughes gets complicated. There was a time about 4 versions of Hughes in the past when most commercial satellites were Hughes. The Galaxy series was all Hughes-built and owned by a Hughes subsidiary. Many of the competitors satellites were designed and built by Hughes at the time.
Now they are part of Echostar, so technically the latest satellite is no longer owned by Hughes, it is owned by the parent company Echostar. even though it was designed and built by Hughes.
Hughes has enough capacity to absorb every one of their Ku-Band customers, and has actively tried to get everybody to switch. Look at Chester'
On 3/24/2013 at 7:20 PM Barb Nolley wrote:
>Do you know when HughesNet plans to launch their 2nd satellite?
>
>I thought perhaps they had, when I heard they outsourced the Ku-band
>services .... having a second satellite means not having to continue to
>lease transponders on other satellites, to avoid line-of-sight issues that
>lose the customer. ;-)
>
>Take care,
>Barb
>http://www.MobileIn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: RVInternetBySatelli
>[mailto:RVInternetBySatelli
>Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 2:02 PM
>To: RVInternetBySatelli
>Subject: Re: [RVInternetBySatell
>
>Chester, there is one, and one only, satellite for the Gen4 service and the
>HT1000 modem. It is Echostar 17, also known as Jupiter 1, located at
>107.1W.
>
>There are some technical issues wtih pointing a Ka-Band dish, but they are
>not insurmountable. The problem is that the service uses very small spot
>beams. If you move out of the spot-beam to which you are assigned it will
>not matter how good you are at pointing, or what you do in terms of
>registration/
>not
>get on. Period. It will require dealer involvement to get you moved to a
>new
>beam.
>
>It sounds like someone also has told you that you could change satellites
>on
>your own with the 7000 service, and if someone did tell you that they were
>very much wrong.
>
>
>
>--------
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
Don Bradner
www.arcatapet.
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