Sirius 4 5E

[Analoguesat]

Newly launched, and not yet on station, Sirius 4 will be operating a Ku and Ka band payload. Coverage will be similar to Sirius 2 & 3 although with more coverage into Eastern Europe. There is also supposed to be an African footprint, although I havent found any map of that yet.

[Llew]

Sirius 4 is now in final orbital position (4.8E) as at 30/12/07 and will no doubt be transferring traffic from Sirius 2 in the near future.

Llew

[Analoguesat]

Yup - due in service by the end of January

[Analoguesat]

Sirius 4 now in service and has taken over most of the Sirius 2 traffic. The last 2 or 3 tp's will swap over in the next few days.

Signal strengths are very good here in southern Scotland - and there are reports of the the BSS Nordic beams being easily received in south Wales!

[Analoguesat]

Heres some updated maps from the NSAB Sirius website. Still no sign of the African footprint beam though.

[Analoguesat]

More updated maps - and hooray we have the African beam!