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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[damn... couple trillion dollars almost down the toilet. I bet the tension, initially, must've been extremely bad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yubastard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 7:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[How much does it cost Dish and DirecTV to launch a sat (including the cost of the sat itself)?<br><br>I did a quick Google search for it but didn't see anything about the cost.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Xyzzy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 7:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would guess from 40 to 100 million? per sat AND launch service. Some say @ about $20,000 per pound or Kg, don't remember exactly, but to take a human that high would take 20 million or so. I guess a sat that can broadcast to a whole continent might cost around 20 million? vibration and radiation proof and all...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yubastard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 8:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nothing. Customers pay for it. Haven't you seen one of their bills before. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2008 4:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have seen my DirecTV bill, which is way less than the closest equivalent cable service.  I say "closest equivalent" because neither of the two cable companies in my city come close to matching DirecTV's HD channel lineup.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy W]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2008 4:09AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[A reduction in service life beats losing the satellite completely.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[shawnmos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 9:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[the cost to build and launch a satellite is around $200 to $250 million dollars.<br><br>This cost was incurred by SES, as they were leasing transponder space to Dish Network.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mitch]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 10:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[The only humans to have gone as far away as these satellites were the 25 or so astronauts of Apollo 8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16, and 17.  Even then, it cost a lot more than $20 million to get there.  The shuttles don't get much above 220 miles from the Earth.  Geo-stationary orbit is more like 22 THOUSAND miles.  And those guys who visited the Moon, well that's a whole QUARTER MILLION MILES from home.  Or say 1000 times farther away than any man has traveled in the last 35 plus years.  Sad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[FLskydiver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 10:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[We also managed to launch a probe in 1977 that has so far made it over TEN BILLION miles from home ...  where it is currently entering interstellar space where our sun has no power over it ... and it is still talking to us.  Pretty hard to even imagine we could have done something like that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[FLskydiver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 10:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[is that "Voyager 1" or whatever it's called? didn't it recently past the point where the solar wind stops?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Winter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 17th 2008 11:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[Good to here they can save it. I am a cox cable subscriber and this is good news for me because compition is good and led to more hd channels for me. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[chestnu1]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 18th 2008 1:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thomas,<br>You must be a sore Boeing engineer. You want to talk about Boeing Satellites? Lets talk GPS. Talk about screw ups. What a sorry bunch on that program huh? Talk about wasting the tax payers dollars. What's that ? LM' has a 100% award fee for GPS-II..yeah how 'bout that? What about how well all those spacecraft have been working? <br><br>How's JTRS coming?<br><br>Isn't Sea Launch a Boeing venture in part? Great job on that...<br><br>Can you say Le' Tanker? <br><br>I guess there is always the chance the gov might feel sorry for you and throw you a bone and give you the GPS III program....as they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut some time. <br><br>Look at it this way...there is always GOES-R...if your lucky.<br><br>When you done whining send us your resume, we have some Jr. engineering positions open.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bobby Stevens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 22nd 2008 9:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[The reason this satellite launch failed and the one that DirectTV 11 launched was a success is because of one factor.. Here it is... The engineers at Lockheed Martin couldn't get a launch correct if they were given a billion dollar reward for doing something actually right in there time. Now Boeing, the runner up actually spends the time and research to get everything right the first time so we don't waste any of your money.<br>Lockheed Martin is controlled by politics, and the government, Dick Chaney and his wife make sure that Lockheed wins every contract even thought they don't know how to build the machine. Wasting your tax dollars of the hard working American people is what they do best! Just look at Lockheed's Track record!!!! It speaks for it self. You could ask the coast guard, they are pissed at how much money they lost with Lockheed, they wasted 25.6 million of your tax dollars, and the ships they bought were so screwed up, the Coast Guard had to decommission them before someone got hurt. They sunk them folks, they were so afraid that these ships they built were so un-safe the Coast Guard after loosing 25.6 million, sunk the ships, because that was what they were worth. HA HA HA!!! The current fighter jet they are to build the JSF, F-35 which they won the contract over Boeing, is currently 9 billion over budget, but hey thats ok, we will just raise gas prices more, or milk, or yeast, or stamps, get the picture. Lockheed martin cant do a thing right, except waste your money. The following statement is true... I have done my research... Sorry Dish Network, but your going to probably have to build a new sat dish, and next time, have Boeing launch it, if you want to actually get it into space.<br>Peace! Keep Job's in America, Don't let Lockheed Martin build our future, planes, jets, military anything!!!!!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 20th 2008 8:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[Lockheed did not launch this satellite, the russians did using a Proton LV.  Do your research, and you will find Lockheed Martin does a fine job of building and operating spacecraft.  The russian booster failed. The spacecraft is working just fine.  Now it's a judgement call to either go ahead with the orbit raising using the satellite's on-board fueland take a reduced lifetime, or declare it a loss and take the insurance money.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[marco]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 23rd 2008 9:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite may not be totally lost]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/17/dish-networks-amc-14-satellite-may-not-be-totally-lost/</guid><description><![CDATA[Boeing  Made the XM Sats that used mirrors on the solar cells to get more power. So they had to replace both Sats with cooked Solar Cells.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 24th 2008 1:42PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>