BS: More channels for Canada

Subject: BS: More channels for Canada
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:15 AM

New Launch: 2007 April 09 2254 UTC
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Launcher: Proton
International Designators(s): 2007-009A

SSC Name Owner
31102 ANIK F3 CA


"Eleven years to the day since the Russian Proton rocket began flying under the marketing banner of International Launch Services, the heavy-duty booster overnight successfully heaved a 10,200-pound Canadian telecommunications satellite into Earth orbit."

"The extraordinarily long ascent began at 2254 GMT (6:54 p.m. EDT) as the six first stage main engines powered the 19-story rocket away from the pad 39. Tracking cameras at the cosmodrome followed the rocket's fiery golden tail flashing through the partly cloudy predawn skies of central Asia.

Within 10 minutes, the Proton had fired its three lower stages and released the Breeze M motor with the attached cargo to begin a sequence of maneuvers over the following nine hours. The five burns by the upper stage engine pushed the rocket step-by-step into the intended elliptical orbit stretching 22,200 miles at its highest point, 3,400 miles at its lowest and inclined 11 degrees to the equator.

The box-shaped satellite, with its power-generating solar arrays and antenna appendages still stowed, successfully separated from the Breeze M motor at about 0805 GMT (4:05 a.m. EDT)."

"Anik F3's destination is a space slot at 118.7 degrees West longitude over the equator, taking Telesat's most-western orbital location, said Dan Goldberg, the company's president and CEO. That vantage point will enable the satellite to fulfill its 15-year mission to provide television, Internet and business communications across North America."

Subject: RE: BS: More channels for Canada
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:18 AM

Okay - now that we've got that taken care of, maybe we can start dealing with the obesity epidemic!

Subject: RE: BS: More channels for Canada
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:11 PM

Broadband cable here gives us over 100 channels not counting music (some pay, of course!) and indications that they could give us many more, depending upon CRTC approval and listener demand. Greek, German, two Chinese, etc. are among the extra cost channels, along with US HD stations, and goodies such as Hustler, Playboy and Red Light.

My daughter and her husband have two satellite receivers, one primarily for communication and business and the other for TV.
According to them, more direct business connections and alternate channels will be the primary advantage for them of the new satellite.

Subject: RE: BS: More channels for Canada
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 05:03 PM

and http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH