Astra 1N to slot at 28E in Q2 2011

[Analoguesat]

That spot beam is a bit on the tight side

Depends where you are - its ideal for Scotland :-righton

Might give me a bit more weather margin - its piddling it down atm and my reception is breaking up on all my dishes..

 

[fergyc]

The SES facebook page has been interesting - an Israeli lad is not happy about the new spotbeams coming to 28E - he keeps demanding SES put the UK PSB channels on widebeams so he can watch them

I see you two are still at it!

 

[bite]

Pan Europe 1 beam looks very interesting for Latvia. Will see if it will be catchable with 110cm dish. As of UK beam - no chance. Pan Europe 2 - no problems.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

According to the SES launch report video for Astra 1N ( -http://goo.gl/TBwDd ), there will be another four ASTRA launches by January 2012.

 

[Analoguesat]

Astra 4B, q4 2011

astra 2F, q4 2012

astra 2E, q2 2013

astra 5B, q2 2013

astra 2G, q1 2014

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

Exactly - doesn't tally with the comment in the video does it?

 

[Analoguesat]

If they were referring to SES birds for SES-Worldskies rather than SES-Astra then the info would be about right - they have several new birds going up in the not too distant future.

 

[strs65]

Exactly - doesn't tally with the comment in the video does it?

Actually it does. There more satellites under the SES Astra brand than plain "Astra's". SES-2, SES-4, QuetzSat 1 and Astra 4B, are all scheduled for launch within 2011.

_http://www.ses.com/ses/siteSections/services/satellitefleet/upcoming-launches/index.php

 

[Huevos]

Astra 1n now at 3.5ºW... moving east 1.5º per day.

 

[Analoguesat]

The tracking sites are pretty meaningless whilst the new birds are attaining geostationary orbit - they arent designed to cope with satellites that change direction or altitude

 

[Huevos]

The tracking sites are pretty meaningless whilst the new birds are attaining geostationary orbit - they arent designed to cope with satellites that change direction or altitude

Hi AS, I didn't use a tracking site, I used my own software. n2yo dot com seems well behind the satellite. And anyway it is already as good as geostationary, semi major axis is 42,052km at the moment, just 6 minutes a day from being fully in sync.

 

[Analoguesat]

AH interesting - whats the s/w you are using?

 

[Huevos]

Analytical Graphics, Inc.
STK 9.2.2
agi dot com

TLE's are from Celestrak under new launches so the data is updated pretty frequently, normally every few hours.

Also, I can see it in the same place on my Android phone using the Satellites AR app, also under new launches.

 

[dvdfilm]

According to tracking sites,Astra 1N should be close to its designated testing slot. Blind scan receivers equipped people should get ready to search for some testing signals

 

[Huevos]

According to tracking sites,Astra 1N should be close to its designated testing slot. Blind scan receivers equipped people should get ready to search for some testing signals

What? 2ºE?

What tracking site are you talking about?

 

[solly]

now satellite 2.5e move east

 

[Analoguesat]

What? 2ºE?

What tracking site are you talking about?

This one for starters

-http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37775

However folks please dont treat these tracking sites as gospel truth. They often arent updated every day and their information is pretty meaningless when satellites are being manoeuvred by their ground stations.

Sites like n2yo work brilliantly for drifting satellites where their position can be predicted weeks or months in advance. A soon as a bird fires its onboard motors then its positional data is basically wrong until the tle's are updated.

(tle = two line elements, data files used for tracking purposes)

 

[Huevos]

gospel truth

I have been downloading the latest TLEs everyday. Just did it a couple of hours ago. TLE data was completely new. Satellite is still doing what I said in post #349. Right now it is between 2ºE and 3ºE. n2yo is wrong because it is giving the period as 1174 when in fact it is 1430 minutes.

 

[dvdfilm]

Now Astra 1N is exactly at 1.8 E according to online tracking in geostationary orbit

 

[Huevos]

Now Astra 1N is exactly at 1.8 E according to online tracking in geostationary orbit

Nothing there for me right now with the spectrum except a bit of spill from 1ºW.