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CIEL II is Home!
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Scott Greczkowski
CIEL II is Home!
January 29, 2009
Earlier today Echostar’s new satellite CIEL II reached its home at 128.85 Western Longitude. The CIEL II satellite was launched on December 10th from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a proton rocket.
The picture perfect launch took place at 7:45 PM and lit up the nights sky.
Testing of the new satellite took place at the 138 degree orbital location and from everything I have been told the testing went extremely well.
The new satellite will give Dish Network customers a better signal (especially on the West Coast, as the current satellite at the 129 location has been an issue for customers in the West and down South. In addition the CIEL II satellite introduces spotbeam technology to the 129 orbital location. This spotbeam technology will allow Dish Network to roll out HD locals to many cities which currently do not get HD locals from Dish Network. With these new spotbeams it will free up conus satellite transponders which can be used by Dish Network to offer more national programming including new national HD channels.
And while the satellite is at its new home don’t expect Dish Network to flip a switch and light up a bunch of new services all at once, in fact it could be days or weeks before customers see anything new from the new satellite. Before the satellite can be used a few more tests are needed and any final tweaking of the satellite will need to be done. After this is complete then Dish will start transferring programming from the old satellite to the new one. When this happens many customers will notice an increase of signal quality from the 129 orbital location. Once the moves start then you can expect Dish to start adding HD locals markets taking advantage of the satellites spot beam technology.
Welcome home CIEL II, a lot of folks have been waiting for you to come home for a long time now!
The Date is Still February 17th!
After my rant yesterday here in ”The Satellite Dish” I was happy when the news came across the wires that the United States House of Representatives had rejected the proposal to delay the digital television switchover until June.
To stretch out the out transition until June would have been a burden on broadcasters around the country and would have confused many people who now have the February 17th date etched in their heads.
I applaud the US House for making a wise and well thought out decision
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Scott Greczkowski
CIEL II is Home!
January 29, 2009
Earlier today Echostar’s new satellite CIEL II reached its home at 128.85 Western Longitude. The CIEL II satellite was launched on December 10th from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a proton rocket.
The picture perfect launch took place at 7:45 PM and lit up the nights sky.
Testing of the new satellite took place at the 138 degree orbital location and from everything I have been told the testing went extremely well.
The new satellite will give Dish Network customers a better signal (especially on the West Coast, as the current satellite at the 129 location has been an issue for customers in the West and down South. In addition the CIEL II satellite introduces spotbeam technology to the 129 orbital location. This spotbeam technology will allow Dish Network to roll out HD locals to many cities which currently do not get HD locals from Dish Network. With these new spotbeams it will free up conus satellite transponders which can be used by Dish Network to offer more national programming including new national HD channels.
And while the satellite is at its new home don’t expect Dish Network to flip a switch and light up a bunch of new services all at once, in fact it could be days or weeks before customers see anything new from the new satellite. Before the satellite can be used a few more tests are needed and any final tweaking of the satellite will need to be done. After this is complete then Dish will start transferring programming from the old satellite to the new one. When this happens many customers will notice an increase of signal quality from the 129 orbital location. Once the moves start then you can expect Dish to start adding HD locals markets taking advantage of the satellites spot beam technology.
Welcome home CIEL II, a lot of folks have been waiting for you to come home for a long time now!
The Date is Still February 17th!
After my rant yesterday here in ”The Satellite Dish” I was happy when the news came across the wires that the United States House of Representatives had rejected the proposal to delay the digital television switchover until June.
To stretch out the out transition until June would have been a burden on broadcasters around the country and would have confused many people who now have the February 17th date etched in their heads.
I applaud the US House for making a wise and well thought out decision
