Originally Posted by billnot:
“What intrigues me is why 2D has been shut down so quickly and unceremoniously. I know it was coming to the end of its life, but the original reason given for 1N to divert to 28.2 rather than go straight to 19.2 was to provide extra capacity, not to replace 2D. That was to be the job of 2E, F and G. Has something gone wrong with 2D that we don't know about?”
“What intrigues me is why 2D has been shut down so quickly and unceremoniously. I know it was coming to the end of its life, but the original reason given for 1N to divert to 28.2 rather than go straight to 19.2 was to provide extra capacity, not to replace 2D. That was to be the job of 2E, F and G. Has something gone wrong with 2D that we don't know about?”
Possibly so but in the world of Satellite broadcasting these things are a secret so we'll probably all never know unless we see 2D 'junked' in to a Graveyard orbit soon'ish. My guess is they've freed it up for use at a not so critical location for something or for SNG use?
We'll have to see if it moves from 28.2E, they may have made the decision to keep it there purely as a backup but not in use until 2F arrives. Even then it could remain in situ further until 2E also arrives when it will finally be moved? Who knows (apart from SES?).
It would make sense to me to prolonge 2D's *potential* future as a backup by moving it's existing services to 1N + gives SES further use of the craft potentially long after it's ceased service for DTH use. 1N is in use anyway now so why not move 2D's TP's across was probably the thinking of SES.
