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Satellite launches scheduled for 2013 in Asia Pacific region
140.0°E Express AM5 Proton Baikonur 12 Ka tps and 40 Ku tps and 30 C tps and 2 L tps
74.0°E G-Sat 11 GSLV Sriharikota 12 Ku tps and 36 C tps will replace Insat 3C
83.0°E G-Sat 6 GSLV Sriharikota 5 C tps and 5 S tps
78.5°E Thaicom 6 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral 8 Ku tps and 18 C tps
95.0°E SES 8 Falcon 9 or Ariane 5 Cape Canaveral or Kourou 33 Ku tps
125.0°E ChinaSat M Long March Xichang 27 Ku tps
82.0°E Insat 3D Ariane 5 Kourou weather satellite
75.0°E ABS 2 Ariane 5 Kourou 78 tps co-located with ABS 1
92.2°E ChinaSat 9A Long March 3B Xichang 22 Ku tps
140.0°E Express AT2 Proton Baikonur 2 Ka tps? and 16 Ku tps
91.5°E Measat 3b Ariane 5 Kourou 48 Ku tps will be co-located with Measat 3/3a
90.0°E Yamal 401 Proton Baikonur 36 Ku tps and 17 C tps
167.0°E Luch 5V Proton Baikonur S tps Sband coms for the ISS
120.0°E AsiaSat 6/Thaicom 7 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral 28 C tps
80.0°E Express AM4R Proton Baikonur 2 Ka tps and 28 Ku tps and 30 C tps and 3 L tps
148.0°E Measat 2a Cband with also cover Australia and New Zealand
93.5°E G-Sat 15 GSLV Sriharikota 36 Ku tps and 12 C tps
119.5°E Thaicom 8
83.0°E G-Sat 9 12 Ku tps
93.5°E G-Sat 13 GSLV Sriharikota 6 Ku tps and 18 C tps will replace Insat 3A
108.2°E SES 9 57 Ku tps co-located with SES 7 and NSS 11
JANUARY 2013
January 1st Movie channels on Foxtel go dark as the new ones are launched first movie to broadcast is the old old old classic "Groundhog day" the 1000'th screening, SIGH
Great Tech radio adds a weekly satellite segment to its streamed radio service.
New Promo starts on Sky for “Face TV” starting first of Feb 2013.
Three satellite launches start off 2013,Anik G1 on the 28th, TDRS K on the 29th and IS27 on the 30th
FEBRUARY 2013
Feb 1st FACE TV starts on the Sky TV network.
Bloomberg TV Indonesia launches a special localized version for the region.
Two launches this month, Africa sat 1 , Amazonas 3 both on Ariane 5 VA212
Press TV disappears From Optus D2.
Press TV disappears from Asia Sat 5 also.
TVPlus encrypts on Intelsat 19 both transponder are broadcasting mpeg4 and using DVBS2
IS19 develops a power fluctuation and several transponders are shunted over to IS8 @169E
Russian Channels on AsiaSat 4 Ku are seen testing on IS19 Ku Australia /New Zealand.
Indian DTH providers raise prices just before the India vs Australia Cricket series begins
This years Communications Asia event will be held 18th to 21st June in Singapore.and NAB 2013 will be In Las Vegas April 6-11th
MARCH 2013
March starts well with the launch of Express AM5 to our region 140 east replacing AM3
APRIL 2013
India Launches Matrimonial TV Network. Called” SHAGUN” The channel’s flavour and feel will take inspiration from the fact that in India weddings are a grand and lavish affair
The Mickey Mouse satellite dishes which we mentioned last year are looking very much worse for wear. So distorted are the faces they resemble a grizzly bears face and not a mouse.
MAY 2013
Test signal seen on Asiasat 5 using HEVC encoding. What is HEVC? High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a draft video compression standard, a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) HEVC is said to improve video quality, double the data compression ratio compared to H.264, and can support 8K UHD and resolutions up to 8192×4320
Thaicom 6 is launched
Ku tests reported in Thailand from Am5 @140E
Australian Government looking into blocking IPTV and piracy websites on request of Foxtel. After a personal request by Rupert Murdoch.
New Foxtel packages launched, along with new pricing.
JUNE 2013
MTV Russia is canned replace by a FTA general entertainment channel
Foxtel Go! Service adds more channels
New HD channel added on Measat 3. Rack Em Up from cuesports.tv is a new HD channel covering Pool, Snooker and Billiards.
JULY 2013
The Lyngsat website gets a redesign, all the pastel colours are gone along with the google adverts. Its still a week out of date though.
Measat 3b launched, to be co located with Measat 3 ,3A @91.5E
Press TV reappears this time its on Measat3 at 91.5E.
A new Christian music channel appears on Asiasat 5 and also turns up on Optus D2.
Newsat announce they have signed another deal for capacity on their Jabiru-1 satellite. It is looking promising!
AUGUST 2013
New product of the month OPTUS super LNBF a 4 head 8 output super LNBF for fixed satellite coverage @ 152E 156E 160E 164E via a single dish.
Asiasat 6 arrives at 120E.
A launch incident. The Falcon 9 rocket has to be remotely destroyed when its second stage rocket does not ignite.
Russia suffers more launch failures both on land and on the Sea Launch platform, dodgy goings on, some of the people involved end up behind bars after a fight breaks out during one launch.
Intelsat 20 Cband footprint gets adjusted to provide more signal into Western Australia.
SEPTEMBER 2013
Measat 2A sucessfully launched to 148E.
Tonga announces that its back in the satellite business having kept several orbital slots. There is money to be made and they have some big investors in China.
Japan has several TWTS fail on their primary DTH satellite carrying the nations SkyPerfect PAY TV Service.
OCTOBER 2013
Several new Indian channels sprout up on AsiaSat 3. There is the usual posts on various forums is it on? is it off? is it still FTA? I have sound but no picture. Is it Mpeg4?
Lotus Movies from Macau change to Multichannel and provide Lotus Six pack Six movie channels Lotus movies , Romance movies , Action Movies , Lotus Premier movies. Western Movies, Box Office Hits. A better collection than Foxtels new offerings and its FREE.
VOA, change programming format into a much tighter and more suitable for distribution, Using blocks of 6 hours they repeat the channel.
BBC world wide launch, BBC multi view specially compiled channels live out of London via Singapore for Australasia these appear in DVBS2 Mpeg4 8PSK FTA for a while, what’s more appealing is they are on IS19 Ku Australia /NZ beam.
AsiaSat 4 C band suddenly is alive with 200 Indian channels again. OH No please encrypt them quickly.
AsiaSat 7 is also pressed into use and channels begin to pop up on that.
Indian cable operators go on strike.
S band on a ku band dish becomes a bit of a craze. But the LNBF are hard to find locally.
Eutelsat expand its satellite cluster at 36 E to cater for the rapidly growing demand in Africa.
NOVEMBER 2013
Freesat launches on Palapa D as part of Indonesias changeover to digital television. Interestingly its via the C band. Its going to be feeding terestrial headend transmitter sites. Along with viewers in remote regions directly.
Astra 1E finally arrives at 160 West its taken near 9 months to make the slow journey across the planet The Pacific Islands are very happy with their new (old) satellite which will link to the PacTv Teleport Facility in Hawaii to provide internet connectivity to many of the Islands
TV Plus on Intelsat19 announce a price drop and new packages. They are struggling to get people to signup the competition from internet and iptv based services is fierce.
Russian AM4R satellite launch delayed.
RRSAT platform fires up on Cband @148E Measat 2a excellent signals to Australia and New Zealand a duplication of their platform on 91.5E
Press TV appears testing on Measat2a
Nigeria's Satellite system is turned off due to lack of payment.
Samsung in partnership with Eutelsat to provide LED TV's with an integrated satellite receiver for the African market. Sets are "eco" friendly can run off a set of 12 volt batterys and come with a camslot ready to take a Pay tv card.
DECEMBER 2013
December 1st 2013, New Zealand completes the Analogue TV shutdown with little fuss.
December 10th 2013, Australia completes their Analogue TVshutdown. There are estimated to be over 2 million viewers in remote regions left without a tv service. Newspapers and Radio flooded with complaints. “What Bloody pamphlet?”, says one irate viewer from Karumba
The Horror Channel HD launches on Measat3 and 2A.
140.0°E Express AM5 Proton Baikonur 12 Ka tps and 40 Ku tps and 30 C tps and 2 L tps
74.0°E G-Sat 11 GSLV Sriharikota 12 Ku tps and 36 C tps will replace Insat 3C
83.0°E G-Sat 6 GSLV Sriharikota 5 C tps and 5 S tps
78.5°E Thaicom 6 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral 8 Ku tps and 18 C tps
95.0°E SES 8 Falcon 9 or Ariane 5 Cape Canaveral or Kourou 33 Ku tps
125.0°E ChinaSat M Long March Xichang 27 Ku tps
82.0°E Insat 3D Ariane 5 Kourou weather satellite
75.0°E ABS 2 Ariane 5 Kourou 78 tps co-located with ABS 1
92.2°E ChinaSat 9A Long March 3B Xichang 22 Ku tps
140.0°E Express AT2 Proton Baikonur 2 Ka tps? and 16 Ku tps
91.5°E Measat 3b Ariane 5 Kourou 48 Ku tps will be co-located with Measat 3/3a
90.0°E Yamal 401 Proton Baikonur 36 Ku tps and 17 C tps
167.0°E Luch 5V Proton Baikonur S tps Sband coms for the ISS
120.0°E AsiaSat 6/Thaicom 7 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral 28 C tps
80.0°E Express AM4R Proton Baikonur 2 Ka tps and 28 Ku tps and 30 C tps and 3 L tps
148.0°E Measat 2a Cband with also cover Australia and New Zealand
93.5°E G-Sat 15 GSLV Sriharikota 36 Ku tps and 12 C tps
119.5°E Thaicom 8
83.0°E G-Sat 9 12 Ku tps
93.5°E G-Sat 13 GSLV Sriharikota 6 Ku tps and 18 C tps will replace Insat 3A
108.2°E SES 9 57 Ku tps co-located with SES 7 and NSS 11
JANUARY 2013
January 1st Movie channels on Foxtel go dark as the new ones are launched first movie to broadcast is the old old old classic "Groundhog day" the 1000'th screening, SIGH
Great Tech radio adds a weekly satellite segment to its streamed radio service.
New Promo starts on Sky for “Face TV” starting first of Feb 2013.
Three satellite launches start off 2013,Anik G1 on the 28th, TDRS K on the 29th and IS27 on the 30th
FEBRUARY 2013
Feb 1st FACE TV starts on the Sky TV network.
Bloomberg TV Indonesia launches a special localized version for the region.
Two launches this month, Africa sat 1 , Amazonas 3 both on Ariane 5 VA212
Press TV disappears From Optus D2.
Press TV disappears from Asia Sat 5 also.
TVPlus encrypts on Intelsat 19 both transponder are broadcasting mpeg4 and using DVBS2
IS19 develops a power fluctuation and several transponders are shunted over to IS8 @169E
Russian Channels on AsiaSat 4 Ku are seen testing on IS19 Ku Australia /New Zealand.
Indian DTH providers raise prices just before the India vs Australia Cricket series begins
This years Communications Asia event will be held 18th to 21st June in Singapore.and NAB 2013 will be In Las Vegas April 6-11th
MARCH 2013
March starts well with the launch of Express AM5 to our region 140 east replacing AM3
APRIL 2013
India Launches Matrimonial TV Network. Called” SHAGUN” The channel’s flavour and feel will take inspiration from the fact that in India weddings are a grand and lavish affair
The Mickey Mouse satellite dishes which we mentioned last year are looking very much worse for wear. So distorted are the faces they resemble a grizzly bears face and not a mouse.
MAY 2013
Test signal seen on Asiasat 5 using HEVC encoding. What is HEVC? High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a draft video compression standard, a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) HEVC is said to improve video quality, double the data compression ratio compared to H.264, and can support 8K UHD and resolutions up to 8192×4320
Thaicom 6 is launched
Ku tests reported in Thailand from Am5 @140E
Australian Government looking into blocking IPTV and piracy websites on request of Foxtel. After a personal request by Rupert Murdoch.
New Foxtel packages launched, along with new pricing.
JUNE 2013
MTV Russia is canned replace by a FTA general entertainment channel
Foxtel Go! Service adds more channels
New HD channel added on Measat 3. Rack Em Up from cuesports.tv is a new HD channel covering Pool, Snooker and Billiards.
JULY 2013
The Lyngsat website gets a redesign, all the pastel colours are gone along with the google adverts. Its still a week out of date though.
Measat 3b launched, to be co located with Measat 3 ,3A @91.5E
Press TV reappears this time its on Measat3 at 91.5E.
A new Christian music channel appears on Asiasat 5 and also turns up on Optus D2.
Newsat announce they have signed another deal for capacity on their Jabiru-1 satellite. It is looking promising!
AUGUST 2013
New product of the month OPTUS super LNBF a 4 head 8 output super LNBF for fixed satellite coverage @ 152E 156E 160E 164E via a single dish.
Asiasat 6 arrives at 120E.
A launch incident. The Falcon 9 rocket has to be remotely destroyed when its second stage rocket does not ignite.
Russia suffers more launch failures both on land and on the Sea Launch platform, dodgy goings on, some of the people involved end up behind bars after a fight breaks out during one launch.
Intelsat 20 Cband footprint gets adjusted to provide more signal into Western Australia.
SEPTEMBER 2013
Measat 2A sucessfully launched to 148E.
Tonga announces that its back in the satellite business having kept several orbital slots. There is money to be made and they have some big investors in China.
Japan has several TWTS fail on their primary DTH satellite carrying the nations SkyPerfect PAY TV Service.
OCTOBER 2013
Several new Indian channels sprout up on AsiaSat 3. There is the usual posts on various forums is it on? is it off? is it still FTA? I have sound but no picture. Is it Mpeg4?
Lotus Movies from Macau change to Multichannel and provide Lotus Six pack Six movie channels Lotus movies , Romance movies , Action Movies , Lotus Premier movies. Western Movies, Box Office Hits. A better collection than Foxtels new offerings and its FREE.
VOA, change programming format into a much tighter and more suitable for distribution, Using blocks of 6 hours they repeat the channel.
BBC world wide launch, BBC multi view specially compiled channels live out of London via Singapore for Australasia these appear in DVBS2 Mpeg4 8PSK FTA for a while, what’s more appealing is they are on IS19 Ku Australia /NZ beam.
AsiaSat 4 C band suddenly is alive with 200 Indian channels again. OH No please encrypt them quickly.
AsiaSat 7 is also pressed into use and channels begin to pop up on that.
Indian cable operators go on strike.
S band on a ku band dish becomes a bit of a craze. But the LNBF are hard to find locally.
Eutelsat expand its satellite cluster at 36 E to cater for the rapidly growing demand in Africa.
NOVEMBER 2013
Freesat launches on Palapa D as part of Indonesias changeover to digital television. Interestingly its via the C band. Its going to be feeding terestrial headend transmitter sites. Along with viewers in remote regions directly.
Astra 1E finally arrives at 160 West its taken near 9 months to make the slow journey across the planet The Pacific Islands are very happy with their new (old) satellite which will link to the PacTv Teleport Facility in Hawaii to provide internet connectivity to many of the Islands
TV Plus on Intelsat19 announce a price drop and new packages. They are struggling to get people to signup the competition from internet and iptv based services is fierce.
Russian AM4R satellite launch delayed.
RRSAT platform fires up on Cband @148E Measat 2a excellent signals to Australia and New Zealand a duplication of their platform on 91.5E
Press TV appears testing on Measat2a
Nigeria's Satellite system is turned off due to lack of payment.
Samsung in partnership with Eutelsat to provide LED TV's with an integrated satellite receiver for the African market. Sets are "eco" friendly can run off a set of 12 volt batterys and come with a camslot ready to take a Pay tv card.
DECEMBER 2013
December 1st 2013, New Zealand completes the Analogue TV shutdown with little fuss.
December 10th 2013, Australia completes their Analogue TVshutdown. There are estimated to be over 2 million viewers in remote regions left without a tv service. Newspapers and Radio flooded with complaints. “What Bloody pamphlet?”, says one irate viewer from Karumba
The Horror Channel HD launches on Measat3 and 2A.
