SES-12 Goes Operational to Serve Asia-Pacific and the Middle East

[Shabeer]

Why dishtv is going for this satellite? They don't need any replacement satellite. Dish and D2H are merged, they can use D2H satellite for both. .

But D2H is not available in Middle East,
Dishtv have huge subscribers in ME.
SES 12 will cover ME

 

[Rishithulyan]

Why dishtv is going for this satellite? They don't need any replacement satellite. Dish and D2H are merged, they can use D2H satellite for both. They should merge their resources, it will be beneficial for them as well as for us as a user as it will reduce their input cost and this benefit they can pass on to us by adding new channels which is pending from long time.

but the business strategy of DishTV is different from your thoughts bro.

1st reason for continuing with 95E is that SES is a big company having a alrge satellite fleet in orbit. Even if a sudden technical issue happens and the satellite becomes damaged, then SES can arrange a replacement satellite within less time, whereas SingTel, the chinese firm owning the ST2 satelitte is a small company cant give such a support. That means continuing in SES owned satellite is a matter of reliability and credibility.
2. moreover DishTV has millions of subscribers. Shifting all their dish antennas re-aligned towards 88e will need a big investment, effort and time. such an effort wont be considerably economical than continuing in 95e sat.
That is why now Dish-D2H has decided to operate these two sat positions as two entities concentrating in two regions - north and south India. as you are aware, now all existing DishTV customers in South region will be migrated to D2H sat so that DishTV at 95e will continue as north region exclusive. lets hope this strategy will win as they aim.

 

[Kpsingh]

17dec nss6 expired let see ses12 when work

 

[dishking]

17dec nss6 expired let see ses12 when work

on dec 17 they will replace nss6 to ses 12

 

[Rishithulyan]

17dec nss6 expired let see ses12 when work

How can you predict the expiry of a satelite with such an accuracy .

 

[Rishithulyan]

on dec 17 they will replace nss6 to ses 12

Not possible bro on December 17. Because now SES-12 has only achieved 31,874.7 x 39,918.2 km elliptical orbit. Considering the slow speed it had from May last week onwards till today, its pretty clear that SES-12 can't achieve 35786x35786 km circular orbit within the next 15 days, unless a chemical propulsion system is used. But as per the news reports, SES-12 has only electrical propulsion thrusters, which is the reason why its taking this much time for orbit raising activity.

 

[Kpsingh]

Dishtv have onether opotion ses8 so dont worrey

 

[dishking]

Then we have to wait for this

 

[arsja]

At present, the satellite is placed in 113.62 E. Don't know why its placed instead of 95E

 

[Rajkumar]

At present, the satellite is placed in 113.62 E. Don't know why its placed instead of 95E

Hence, my arion box hanging frequently.
Just Joking:blush: