Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
SATELLITE TV

Satellite TV will bring the United States its first 3D HDTV channel next year. The satellite which will make this possible will be fully operational by March and existing set-top boxes will only require a firmware update to support 3D. The problem lies in the fact that not too many people have 3D-capable HDTVs. That will be a requirement for the Satellite TV content to work.
The first artificial satellite launched into the space. Soviet Union was the first country to reach the space. It was on 4th October, 1957 the Sputnik 1 left the earth and reached the low altitude of earth’s orbit. This launch ignited the cold war between USA and Soviet Union. It also created a technological advancement in the field of aeronautics across the world countries. This satellite was launched with the help of R-7 rocket. The Sputnik 1 was mainly constructed by the chief constructor M. S. Khomyakov. The satellite is equipped with a one watt radio transmitting unit. The radio signals send by this unit is used to get the information about electron density of the ionosphere. The main scientific tasks performed by the satellite include measuring the density of atmosphere, its ion composition, corpuscular solar radiation, magnetic fields, cosmic rays etc. These data’s are transmitted through two antennas located in the satellite having spherical radiation pattern. A ground observatory is build to receive the transmitted signal. This was the first satellite in the Sputnik series.
VANGUARD 1
This satellite belongs to the United States navy developed by the US navy research laboratory. It was launched on March 17, 1958. It holds the record as the world’s oldest satellite that is still in orbit. The expected life time of this spacecraft was about 240 years. The main mission of this satellite is to study the earth science. It is the first satellite to be powered by the solar energy from the sun. For this purpose the satellite has six solar cells mounted on the outer surface. The spacecraft is spherical in structure and weighs about 1.47 kilograms. There are six short antennas used to transmit the data observed in the space. This tracking data was used to study about the shape of the earth. It also determines the total electron content between the space and the ground stations. This satellite lost the communication slowly and the final data received at May 1964 but it is still in the earth’s orbit.
EUROBIRD 3

The spacecraft bears 20 active Ku-band transponders, each powered by 32 watt traveling wave amplifiers. Ku-band transponders connected to four posts over the beams of the European region. Satellite is designed to provide coverage in Scandinavia, Britain, and Western and Eastern Europe. E-BIRD of EUTELSAT joined the existing fleet of 19 aircraft. Spacecraft will operate at 25.5 degrees east longitude and has a contract for 10 years. E-BIRD was launched in 2003 on board the Ariane-5G rocket. It was later renamed to Eurobird 3.
EUTELSAT W1

Originally commissioned by Orion network systems, such as Orion 2, the contract was subsequently terminated. It was purchased by satellite called Eutelsat RESSAT freely, which was later renamed Eutelsat W1 Replacement Cable is compatible with its earlier momentum spacecraft, W2 and W3. Eutelsat W1 then decided to start in September 2000. Located at 10 degrees East satellite position serves all applications involving the inclusion of commercial, Internet-based services and television programming.
EUROBIRD 1

EuroBird 1 satellite, built-in operator Eutelsat, provides broadcasting and telecommunications services primarily in Western and Central Europe region in the orbital position of 28.5 ° E. launched in the first quarter of 2001, Cable is designed for 24-channel operation over a minimum period of 12 years. Cable ensures continuity of telecommunications services currently provided by the DFS Kopernikus satellite, including business services, satellite television and radio news and program distribution.
Animation of the images visible through -13 on CIMS tropical cyclones showed a prominent cyclonic circulation development of low-level first cyclone of the Atlantic basin tropical “invest” in the season May 23, 2010. Coverage of troposphere atmospheric motion vectors and low (along with a handful of posts) has also shown a broad cyclonic circulation around these developments cloud feature.
Going -13 IR images that there were several large groups of cold ride above it are located outside the North-East, but that deep convection does not seem directly related to developing low-level cyclonic circulation see pictures visible.
Going -13 water vapor imagery with deep layer of coverage (850-200 hPa) wind shear revealed two factors present, was negative on the rapid intensification of investors 90L: very dry air to move west, along with increasing values of wind shear – but suggested that the manual model has a small chance that this system may ultimately develop into subtropical cyclones.
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EUTELSAT1-F2

The European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Eutelsat) has been servicing the European community since 1977, being formally established by a multi-lateral agreement in 1985. In 1979 ESA agreed to design, build, and launch five ECS (European Communication Satellite) spacecraft to be assumed by Eutelsat after passing initial on-orbiting testing. At that time the name of each spacecraft was changed to Eutelsat 1-F1, Eutelsat1-F2, etc. Of the five ECS spacecraft, four were successfully launched (1983, 1984, 1987, and 1988) and transferred to Eutelsat.
ROBOTIC ARM

This is the process of two unmanned spacecraft have succeeded in their first autonomous satellite refueling demonstration while orbiting high above Earth. The ASTRO satellite, one of two spacecraft flying the Orbital Express refueling mission, successfully pumped vital hydrazine fuel into its NextSat counterpart as part of Scenario 0-1, the first in a series of increasingly challenging tests.
HOT BIRD 7A

Hot Bird 7A will be based on Alcatel Space’s Spacebus-3000B3 platform. Launch is planned for the autumn of 2005, when the new satellite will join Eutelsat’s Hot Bird family of satellites co-located at the 13 degree East slot and reaching 100 million houses, and currently broadcasting 676 video channels and 565 audio channels. Equipped with 38 Ku-band transponders of 33 MHz minimum each (end of life), Hot Bird 7A will replace Hot Bird 1. The other 20 transponders will be available for potential back-up and replacement capacity for the Hot Bird 2, 3 and 4 satellites.
