Wheres our Satellite?!

Panda

Heres an infrographic that shows the amount of satellites orbiting the earth by country.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4314987544/sizes/o/in/set-72157622340623679/

Morocco has one we have triple their gdp.
Nigeria has two.
Mauritius which has the gdp of a potato has one.
Even the butt of many an international joke, Kazakhstan has one.

What i'd like to know is why the hell dont we have one?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Orbitting Uranus .

At least we know we're Klingon-free...

Sheeps

Panda wrote: »

Heres an infrographic that shows the amount of satellites orbiting the earth by country.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4314987544/sizes/o/in/set-72157622340623679/

Morocco has one we have triple their gdp.
Nigeria has two.
Mauritius which has the gdp of a potato has one.
Even the butt of many an international joke, Kazakhstan has one.

What i'd like to know is why the hell dont we have one?

Why do we need one?

Mike 1972

Even the butt of many an international joke, Kazakhstan has one.

Given that the Russians use Kazakhstan for most of their launches the satellite was probably given to them in lieu of rent ?

Ireland probably has a 1/27 share in a few (European Space Agency) satellites ?

A lot of satellites these days are privately owned and registered under a flag of convenience. The one used by $ky is registered to Luxembourg IIRC

Sheeps wrote: »

Why do we need one?

Cause everyone else has one and if the Brits have any then Ireland is entitled to one too <Rant about 800 years of stealing our women and raping our potatoes........>

ejmaztec

There was one but someone satellite to it and it melted.:(

ScumLord

We just use the UK and EU ones I'd say. As far as I know we do some work on European satellites in this country.

MaybeLogic

If we do ever get one we should name it 'Spudnik'.

mikom

Panda wrote: »

Wheres our Satellite?!

What i'd like to know is why the hell dont we have one?

We have one.
It's named after Harney............ Hotbird.

Mike 1972

There was a proposal to launch two Irish satellites (To make money* beaming TV into the UK) back in the eighties but it (literally and figuratively) never took off


* And possibly to get our own back for aforementioned years of women stealing and potato raping ?

AnonoBoy

We had a satellite but now it's gone, way up to Mars.

Panda

Sheeps wrote: »

Why do we need one?

Ehhhhh, for science!

ejmaztec wrote: »

There was one but someone satellite to it and it melted.:(

Its posts like this that call for a "Thanks but no thanks button"

AnonoBoy wrote: »

We had a satellite but now it's gone, way up to Mars.

What does that even mean?

mikom

AnonoBoy wrote: »

We had a satellite but now it's gone, way up to Mars.

Bom, bom, bom, Satellite of love...

Panda wrote: »

What does that even mean?

Can't you Reed?

Gone Drinking

Lets try get our hospitals right before we start spending our money on fcuking satellites please.

We can use everyone elses for anything worthwhile.

Ps. I wouldn't mind spending a few quid sending Mary Harney into orbit mind

Panda

mikom wrote: »

Bom, bom, bom, Satellite of love...

Can't you Reed?

Ahhhhh wakey wakey

dilallio

MaybeLogic wrote: »

If we do ever get one we should name it 'Spudnik'.

We did - Spudnik-One crashed in Salthill, Galway

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/31250351_4564c196c1.jpg

Mike 1972

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I wouldn't mind spending a few quid sending Mary Harney into orbit mind

2000 Kg of rocket fuel for every Kg of payload IIRC

Do the maths :eek:

mikom

Panda wrote: »

Ahhhhh wakey wakey

No charge...... this time

ejmaztec

Panda wrote: »

Its posts like this that call for a "Thanks but no thanks button"

That's me - "rattling cages since 2001":P

ejmaztec

Mike 1972 wrote: »

2000 Kg of rocket fuel for every Kg of payload IIRC

Do the maths :eek:

Much cheaper to force-feed her pickled onions, then light a match and run for the bunker.

jumpguy

Irish investment in space technology has been appalling, it amounts to not much really. We don't really play a big role in ESA (European Space Agency) and as a result we still haven't even got our first Irishman in space.

Most of our "space assets" are ESA projects that we chipped a few bucks in. There's some where parts were designed by Irish organisations. So we're not completely out of the game either.

Why don't we have our 'own' satellite? We don't need one, and we don't have the resources to start our own space agency. Being part of the EU means we have ESA, which is much cheaper for all our space needs.

When it comes to space, really Ireland is more of a user rather than a creator tbh.

Mike 1972

ejmaztec wrote: »

Much cheaper to force-feed her pickled onions, then light a match and run for the bunker.

Might be a technical breach of UN treaties on WMD proliferation ?

dlofnep

We had one, but Mary Harney ate it.

Wazdakka

Even if we had one, It'd probably be under a bad debt with NAMA by now anyway.

admiralofthefleet

the country is fucked, i can think of far better things to invest money in

Mike 1972

Wazdakka wrote: »

Even if we had one, It'd probably be under a bad debt with NAMA by now anyway.

Panda wrote: »

Mauritius which has the gdp of a potato

Lucky barstewards ?

Overheal

What do you need a Satellite for?

*Knock Knock* "Satellite License Inspector!"

ejmaztec

Overheal wrote: »

What do you need a Satellite for?

To answer the 2 questions that Irish scientists have been pondering for decades. i.e. is the Earth suitable for human colonisation, and why do things look smaller when they're further away?

Joey the lips

If we had a satellite those pesky republicians would dispute the top 6 channels...:D






#Oh gerry is going to kill me

OFlaherty

We have a small share in a number of ESA projects and satellites but I don't think the day will come when we're launching our own. It's not exactly economically viable in the current climate and I can't see what use we would have for one.

Although maybe we could stick a great big lens on the thing and hire it out to the paparazzi whenever Bono is in town or something... Catch FF's exploits at the Galway Races etc..

Joey the lips

Irans one wont be there for long its carrying wmd's

fuelinjection

We had some satellite channels leased for voice calls to America and a few remote countries that didn't have direct fibre optic cables.
But the delay on them is terrible, theres a bad echo when you speak. Also they are no good for data transfer as the bandwidth on them is tiny compared to fibre.

Ireland is too small a country to need satellite for say Donegal to Cork. I can see in big countries with remote regions like Morocco and Nigeria, it would pay for them to buy a satellite as theres no way they will have fixed copper or fibre optic cables in those areas.

MaybeLogic

fuelinjection wrote: »

Ireland is too small a country to need satellite for say Donegal to Cork. I can see in big countries with remote regions like Morocco and Nigeria, it would pay for them to buy a satellite as theres no way they will have fixed copper or fibre optic cables in those areas.

We could always use it to share re-runs of 'Fair City' with the world.
Give people an insight into how life really is in our nations Capital.

CreepingDeath

The first Irish satellite will be welded on top of the spire, sure it only really needs to cover Dublin anyways.

oisinmc14

MaybeLogic wrote: »

We could always use it to force upon them re-runs of 'Fair City' with the world.
Give people an insight into how life really is in our nations Capital.

fyp

Then we could hold the world hostage or they will feel the wrath of Carrigstown

CrazyRabbit

I vote we put the Taoiseach into orbit with an iPhone and some antenna attached. He can do some weather forecast for us and help me pick up a few extra satellite stations for free.

All we need to do is stick something up his *ss for a while. Wait a few days for the hot air to build up, then release and off he goes into low orbit.

Cheap, effectively, and a bloody good use for a politician.

Joey the lips

fuelinjection wrote: »

Ireland is too small a country to need satellite for say Donegal to Cork. I can see in big countries with remote regions like Morocco and Nigeria, it would pay for them to buy a satellite as theres no way they will have fixed copper or fibre optic cables in those areas.

Fair enough have you seen luxumberg.:D

ScumLord

dlofnep wrote: »

We had one, but Mary Harney ate it.

This is a common misconception. Mary was put in charge of the Irish satellite which 4 minutes later was crashing through earth's atmosphere nobody knows exactly why it malfunctioned. She did eat the ground staff which is where he rumour she eat the satellite comes from.

Bajingo

Panda wrote: »

Heres an infrographic that shows the amount of satellites orbiting the earth by country.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4314987544/sizes/o/in/set-72157622340623679/

Morocco has one we have triple their gdp.
Nigeria has two.
Mauritius which has the gdp of a potato has one.
Even the butt of many an international joke, Kazakhstan has one.

What i'd like to know is why the hell dont we have one?

Why bother when we can just have everyone else do..seriously Ireland has never been known as cutting edge in any sense of the word..

So what if those poor countries have satellites..they're still dirt poor(mostly) I would rather be living in satellite-less Ireland than Kazakhstan!

Panda

Panda wrote: »

Even the butt of many an international joke, Kazakhstan has one.

Kazakhstan is thirty times bigger than Ireland

Dartz

The Orion project...

Solve all our problems in Atomic fire too.

Panda

Deleted User wrote: »

Kazakhstan is thirty times bigger than Ireland

ok, ok, i concede Kazakhstan due to its size and its ties to russia but mauritius is a speck in comparison to us.

MaybeLogic

Panda wrote: »

ok, ok, i concede Kazakhstan due to its size and its ties to russia but mauritius is a speck in comparison to us.

Mauritius probably got a French hand-me-down-satellite.

Hazys

We do but not in the strict technical terms.

Our satellite is called Mary Harney but the difference is that Mary Harney is so big, the earth actually orbits around her and not the other way around.

Mike 1972

Joey the lips wrote: »

Fair enough have you seen luxumberg.:D

Luxembourg got into the satellite business at a time when most European counties had a television monopoly (or duopoly in the case of Britain) and a policy of keeping new broadcasters out of the market.

congo_90

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the country is fucked, i can think of far better things to invest money in

I couldn't agree more. Why spend money on satelites when the money could be better spent?
Bitches and hoes for everyone!