Dishtv looking to add 5 transponders on ses8

[Mudasir 4K]

I think there will be more transponders aviliable in south asia beam for dishtv on ses8 and dishtv only wants to use 5 of them

 

[SivaG]

dishtv uses mpeg2. so they can add 18 to 22 channels per tp.

 

[Mudasir 4K]

SAT LAUNCHED FOR INDIAN DTH

SES-8 Has been launched & Co-
Located With NSS-6 @ 95 deg East.

There is Good News For the
transponder starved Indian DTH industry! On December 3, the SES-8 satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). This was SpaceX's first geostationary transfer mission. "We appreciate SES's early
confidence in SpaceX and look
forward to launching additional SES satellites in the years to come," Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX said in a statement. SpaceX plans to aggressively compete with
Ariane, and Russian launchers. It
has priced its launches in the $
55-60 million range.
SpaceX currently has nearly 50
launches on manifest, of which more than 60% are for commercial customers.

SES-8

The new 3.2-tonne SES-8 satellite
has cost SES more than US $ 100
million. Built on a GEO-Star bus by Orbital Sciences, SES-8 is co-located with the NSS-6 satellite at 95 degrees east. Both the NSS-6 and SES-8 are owned and operated by Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES.
SES-8 has the equivalent of 33 Ku-
band transponders, each of 36 MHz bandwidth. Although, it was set for launch in early 2013, technical issues delayed the SES-8 to the end of the year.

INDIA CENTRIC

On paper, SES-8 targets both south Asian and south East Asian clients. However, it would clearly hope to sell all its transponder capacity to India. Indian DTH platforms and VSAT networks are starved of transponder capacity, and will welcome the SES-8.
However Indian law permits renting of transponder capacity only from ISRO. Hence SES- 8 will have to sell its transponder capacity to ISRO's commercial arm - Antrix which in turn will re-sell it to Indian end users.


DISH TV TO BENEFIT

The biggest and immediate
beneficiary will be India's oldest and largest DTH platform - DishTV, who already has leased 9 transponders on the colocated NSS-6 also now owned by SES. Each transponder downlinks approximately 15 Standard
definition channels for DishTV.
Dish TV CEO RC Venkateish, had
earlier told the press that his
company planned to add 5
transponders from SES to beef up its existing capacity. "We have got one transponder already allocated and this should cost us about $1.3 million as rental outgo per year," he
had said. (Dish TV also has a long
term contract for additional
transponders on Asiasat, which it
signed in 2010).


SES-9

SES also plans to launch SES-9 in 2015 at 108.2 degree East with extensive Ku-band capacity to supplement the existing SES-7 satellite for better DTH services in South Asia along with north East Asia and Indonesia.

 

[acmedigitals]

but what is the current position?

 

[Mudasir 4K]

finally Dishtv has activated 1 transponder 12710 H 40700 on ses8 and is currently testing 24 channels on it for Dishtv SriLanka

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