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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: satellite costs etc.
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:16:58 GMT
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- In <1993Jan1.165738.24729@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >Redundancy is always desirable if it's affordable, but there is a practical
- >difficulty with having *cold* spares in orbit. Will they work when we need
- >them?
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- A cold spare is unlikely to be completely cold. More likely it will
- operated in a low-power mode so that you can still run diagnostics
- and self-tests on the hardware.
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- >They have to be cold spares if they share the same orbital slot and
- >frequencies.
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- Not true. You can put two birds in the same slot but only use
- half the transponders on each one. If the transponder frequency
- X transponder fails on bird one, you switch to the frequency X
- transponder on bird two. If bird one fails entirely, bird two
- can take over the entire service til a new backup is launched.
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