Talk:DirecTV satellite fleet/Archive 1

Weight relevant?
I don't think this article benefits from the detailed discussion of the known precision of the spacecraft's weight. I'm pretty sure its weight is precicely known (it's important info for launch, orbit raising, for attitude control)... but Boeing decided three significant figures were sufficient for a press release. In any case, it will be soon be irrelevant. &mdash;Fleminra 02:14, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

From former SPACEWAY page
How much of this page's content should be removed from the SPACEWAY-1 page where it originated? With the addition of SPACEWAY-2, it was best to separate the material but should I go back and remove it as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.66 (talk • contribs) 03:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Change back to Gps for bandwidth from guess of GHz
Change back to Gps for bandwidth from guess of GHz since this is a broadband satellite; note that 500 MHz is the capacity mentioned above.

Spaceway 1 is a broadband satellite capable of using its 500 MHz in the Ka-band to achieve a 10 Gps throughput of bandwidth capacity. Even though it is transmitting an RF signal on a second 500 MHz, it is not really a data carrying signal and will be turned off once DirecTV 10 or 11 is placed in the same orbital slot to make use of that second 500 MHz Ka-band frequency range. So 10 Gps is correct for the bandwidth and 500 MHz is the transponder capacity, not 10 GHz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.58 (talk • contribs) 03:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Bandwidth meaning
"(just take it out, then. If it is supposed to be channel capacity of 10 Gbit/s or something like that, change "bandwidth" and use standard symbols)"

Bandwidth is usually defined as capacity which is 10 Gbps as mentioned in the following original specifications: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/702/spaceway/spaceway.html http://www.comlinks.com/satcom/spacew.htm

Bandwidth is different from channel capacity. Bandwidth is similar to an ethernet or ATM switch's backplane capacity while channel capacity is similar to the ethernet port or interface port speeds. The aggregate port speeds would usually exceed the overall capacity of the backplane due to design assumptions about statistically multiplexing of ports.

This may be irrelevant to Spaceway 1 since it is being used as a bent-pipe satellite for high definition transmissions and its regenerative digital switching payload is not really being used for internet communication. This discussion is relevant to the article on Spaceway 3. The article on Spaceway 2 would also need to be updated to be consistent with whatever direction is taken on Spaceway 1's use of the term "bandwidth".

Channel capacity is also complicated by Spaceway's use of uplink spotbeams with frequency subband reuse (and reuse of channels in each uplink spotbeam).

Using traditional bent-pipe transponder based terms makes it difficult to apply to these new broadband satellites... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.14.33 (talk • contribs) 07:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Photo request (orig from DirecTV-10)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ysangkok (talk • contribs) 11:40, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

SPACEWAY-3 is not to be confused with DirecTV-10
SPACEWAY-3 is not to be confused with DirecTV-10. --KJRehberg 23:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

SPACEWAY-2 should be merged with SPACEWAY-1
SPACEWAY-2 should be merged with SPACEWAY-1, and quite possibly with SPACEWAY itself. There is nothing sufficiently different between the first two spacecraft, and their SPACEWAY-specific parts of their missions were disabled by DirecTV. The irony is that SPACEWAY-2 and SPACEWAY-1 are not going to be SPACEWAY birds. The SPACEWAY-3 satellite is going to have true SPACEWAY mission. --KJRehberg 23:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose per my comment on Talk:Spaceway F2 -- G W … 11:32, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Satellites in space
1. A satellite cannot withstand the heat of 2500 degrees in the thermosphere. Its not possible. IN fact there is no material that can. We at MIT have studied this thoroughly. We cannot find a single satellite in the sky using high end telescopes and binoculars. Day or night our view of the moon or sun is not ever hampered and should be with nearly 35,000 supposed satellites in the sky. This is a hoax of the greatest magnitude. Debunk it please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:e000:fa41:c200:c4f9:54da:accf:beb3 (talk) 01:34, 17 April 2015 (UTC)