Where is the satellite?

[wrate]

When E*8 was moving to its final in orbit slot at 110W, someone posted a link to a site that using TLE's (I think) could provide the exact position for a given satellite. A list of satellites was provided to choose from. Does anyone know or remember what the Internet address to such site may be?

I would like to know as soon as DishNetwork starts moving E*6 to 110W. :)

TIA

Wrate

[scooper]

What's the logic in moving E*6 to 110 ? At 119, if E*7 has problems, they can at least keep National feed channels going on 119.

[Jacob S]

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html

[Mike123abc]

I wonder where they plan to move E5. Maybe they are going to move E5 to 61.5 or 148. If they are able to increase power at 148 or 61.5 to double power, they could lower the FEC error correction and probably go up to 3 channels of HDTV per transponder vs the 2 they can get now with the enhanced 8PSK system. E6 of course is suffering from loss of solar arrays. It has lost 3 of the approximately 6 spares.

I would suspect it would be headed to 61.5 because echostar III at 61.5 is broken and cannot operate at double power without overheating during certain times of the year. E* has 17 slots at 61.5 (including Angel leases) and 24 at 148. If they run some of the 17 at 61.5 at double power they could make up for the fewer transponders.

[wrate]

Jacob S,

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realti...Spacecraft.html is HANDS DOWN the COOLEST site I've been to. Thanks.

[Jacob S]

Your welcome. Someone else on here had posted the link last year and is an awesome site for tracking those satellites. It must be what NASA uses or something similar to what NASA uses to track the satellites.