Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Also interesting words in here:
Whitehill says the company has reversed most of the previous management’s policies. “My view disagreed with the philosophy used by the previous occupier of this seat which was to bring this new technology to the market with high-throughput data services. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong but if you are bringing a new technology to a market with a total $1.3 billion of investment, you have to have scale. That scale and revenues, EBITDA and profitability have to be sufficient to pay back shareholders. That is clearly where the problem was. The economics simply didn’t make sense. Indeed, looking back it might make a terrific case study of how not to do things.”
Full article: http://www.satnews.com/story.php?number=1334484832
Launch is delayed to 6th of August.
Hits, from where do you have the information that Eutelsat Konnect is online? Just curious
I think you are right "ping reports RTT", I got confused myself. thanks
HITS, I believe you only do a small confusion there, you mentioned ping test for latency, that actually shows how many milliseconds the ping response took to return from destination host to source host (this is what tyche said few times). Therefore "one way" or one satellite hop.
What you're saying is something else called RTT round-trip time or double-hop distance - which is considered double. You are correct with your statement that around 500-600ms are actually coming from the double-hop distance.
Thanks buko, very interesting https://www.comsat.com/announcement/avanti/
I would prefer this is not related to Comsat Inc. deal announced in August, but I am afraid is exactly that. Anyway, 1 milion $ per month from a single customer is a good deal for Avanti.
Confirmation that HYLAS 4 is flying now where it should:
LATITUDE:
0.00
LONGITUDE:
-33.60
ALTITUDE [km]:
35772.71
https://n2yo.com/?s=43272&live=1
I believe the order of things are:
- Launch and early orbit phase (completed in April)
- In orbit testing of the Hylas 4 Ka-band telecom payload - (completed sometime in June / July)
- Moving Hylas4 in the final orbital slot which is 33.5W (completed end of August)
- Start doing business (pending confirmation, expecting September - see last RNS)
Could mean opportunities for Avanti, as they are well ahead invested in Africa. “Theresa May makes 'unashamed' vow to use UK aid to boost British private sector in Africa” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-british-uk-aid-africa-private-sector-us-france-2022-a8509791.html
Just some assumptions for Hylas4:
I could observe the spacecraft is moved from the in-orbit testing position towards the final orbital position 33.5W since a good while. Now it is at around 13.8W and moving with some 0.7 deg / day. That makes some 2 weeks time to reach the final position.
Assuming all the testing went well so far, they should have the spacecraft ready for operations before end of August.
Tyche, thanks, you are very right about it. Artemis was basically used to secure the slot/frequency rights for own future satellites. But Hylas 2B is just some payload rental on the Astra 5B 31.5 E - probably a deal post frequency right dispute between SES and Avanti few years ago, ending in favor of Avanti.
H2B, formerly known as Artemis, is de-orbited I believe. AVN owns three slots, currently: H1 33.5W, H2 31E, H4 21.5E. Later on H3 will share same slot as H2 on 31E.
AVN may relocate these birds as they want, as long as they stick to the 3 slots they own.
Well, this is good, a 10mil$ contract over 2-years. After google it a bit, it seems that this comes shortly after a failed deal Viasat - Eutelsat for a new join-venture satellite. Hopefully this gives AVN some wind in the right direction.
Glad to see that Hylas 4 has reached the GEO orbit! Great job Epoch (UTC): 16 April 2018 19:17:09 Eccentricity: 0.0007199 inclination: 0.0477� perigee height: 35677 km apogee height: 35738 km right ascension of ascending node: 23.8921� argument of perigee: 151.2849� revolutions per day: 1.00553325 mean anomaly at epoch: 339.2095� orbit number at epoch: 17
Scotty, very clear conclusion of the whole chaos created lately, thanks! AVN has clearly issues, but they still do have a solution. Let's see how it develops from here.
I believe the satellite is doing very well, already having a perigee of 5000 km and a good inclination, still couple of more days until reaching the in-orbit testing slot. Well done AVN and Orbital! Source here based on NORAD tracking information: http://heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=43272&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&cul=en
“The 8,928-pound (4,050-kilogram) satellite is based on Orbital ATK’s GEOStar 3 spacecraft platform. It carries a hydrazine-fueled thruster to conduct five major orbit-raising burns over the next 10 days, followed by the extension of the satellite’s power-generating solar panels to their full span April 15. Testing of the Hylas 4 satellite’s Ka-band telecom payload will begin April 19.” ... then after doubled in-orbit capacity for Avanti!
Always go to the source for a good live video stream, starting 15 minutes before liftoff scheduled 21:34UTC. All information here: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va242/ Good luck today!
What is your silly answer has to do with the subject "Hylas 4 launch 5th April"? If you have nothing to say, don't post please, I am sick of scrolling necessary stuff idiots posts on web-pages. Please behave. Sorry to all for Off Topic.