Thaicom 3 50.5E

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Thaicom 3 at 50.5E, I heard there are some blank carriers on there now any luck any one
 
Thats Thaicom 3 RD! Thaicom 5 is slotted at 78.5E :D
 
Can anybody confirm that Thaicom 3 was sold to the Bulgarians and that they are planning to start regular transmissions from 50.4E in the next 2 months ?

That was somebody's answer yesterday in a german board based on a source in a bulgarian forum. I asked him for the source but maybe anybody here knows more ?
 
My understanding is its so Thaicom can expand into the Middle East.
 
Well before i read this yesterday i was also thinking that 30.5E will be the park position. We'll see.
 
Here is the thread that misleads:
http://forum.digitalfernsehen.de/forum/showthread.php?p=1608359#post1608359

Seems that the poster didn't understand well the source:

http://am.dnevnik.bg/?y=2006&m=8&d=11

Bulgaria awards satellite licence

Bulgaria's telecom regulator has decided to license local company Balkansat for the use of the 50.4° ±10° position on the geostationary satellite arc which has been allocated to the country by the International Telecommunication Union. Balkansat was the only candidate for the licence and therefore it was awarded on a non-competitive basis. The regulator did not say if the licence winner has confirmed it will pay the necessary licensing fee. According to company registration database DAXI, Balkansat is owned by Virgin Islands-registered Heritage Finance Fund.
 
Rd100 said:
Thaicom 3 at 50.5E, I heard there are some blank carriers on there now any luck any one
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What size dish nessasary for parts of Europe for this Bird? Does anyone know?
 
No idea - no footprint maps are available yet.

However, the Ku band tp's are on steerable spotbeams so if TC3 is indeed for the Middle East it can only be bad news for western Europe.
 
Shes had technical problems in the past - only 4 Ku band tps operational since 2003:

Thaicom 3
Operator: Shin Satellite
Manufacturer: Alcatel Space
Model: SpaceBus 3000A
Launched: 16 April 1997
Orbit: Geostationary
Shin Satellite on 7 February 2003 announced that its Thaicom-3 satellite experienced "an anomaly in its power system." This has caused temporary outages in some of the customers' services, the company said in a brief statement. Reportedly, the root cause of the failure is a short circuit in the solar array drive mechanism.

Thaicom 3 has 14 Ku-band transponders but only four have been functioning since the outage, the Bangkok Post reported. The transponders are used by pay-TV broadcaster United Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), which is now contemplating how to compensate subscribers. According to an unnamed source at UBC cited by the Bangkok Post, Shin Satellite has not been able to say how long it would take to restore full services.

On 12 September 2004 (local Thailand time), the satellite experienced an outage of at least 12 hours. Shin Satellite in a filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand said the company "decided to turn off temporarily the transponders on its Thaicom 3 satellite in order to recharge the batteries while performing maintenance during the eclipse."

A report in The Nation newspaper indicated, however, the satellite lost attitude and went into safe mode.

Equipped with 25 C-Band and 14 Ku-Band transponders, the satellite has a life expectancy of 14 years. Total on-board power is 5.3 kW.



http://www.sat-index.com/failures/
 
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