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Spring Equinox Sun Outages

watty · 2004-02-12 12:12:53

for a few days around the Spring (and autumn) at the equinox the sun is on same plane as the satellites. So for a few minutes each of those days as the sun "passes" the satellite position reception may be disrupted. Near last week of March! Here is a explaination and "outage map" for Telstar II. Each satellite is affected…

12-02-2004 12:12pm

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for a few days around the Spring (and autumn) at the equinox the sun is on same plane as the satellites. So for a few minutes each of those days as the sun "passes" the satellite position reception may be disrupted.

Near last week of March!

Here is a explaination and "outage map" for Telstar II. Each satellite is affected at a different time according to your location and its location.
http://www.loralskynet.com/fleet/telstar11/t11so_us.asp.html

The maps remind me of Ann McCaffery's "Threadfall" on Pern!

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