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Drifting satellite threatens U.S. cable programming

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LONDON - A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday.

Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 5, possibly because the satellite's systems were knocked out by a solar storm. Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications satellite that serves U.S. cable companies.

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DirecTV Inc., the largest US satellite TV company, said it will not be affected. Comcast Corp. said it was monitoring the situation.

Cox Communications Inc. said it could not immediately specify if its service would be affected and Dish Network Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Charter Communications Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp. had no statements on the matter or did not return Associated Press calls seeking comment.

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No, like the US did a year ago with that military satellite that went out of orbit and they were afraid that some of the radioactive material might survive re-entry.

I thought that was China.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/19/china_shoots_down_satellite_drawing_protests_worldwide/

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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No, like the US did a year ago with that military satellite that went out of orbit and they were afraid that some of the radioactive material might survive re-entry.

Hmmm....what did they use? Because if there was ever a need for "big laser" this would be it.

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You've never seen your signal break up?

Dude you aint got no fvckin signal! :rofl:

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Just when I thought concast couldn't get any worse..

The #### are going to charge us for this..

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According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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So Cable is really Satellite service??! :o

In various areas it is beamed into a distribution center and then retransmitted via the cable. They are huge #### dishes too.

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According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

 

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