http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au News and views about the satellite and space industries Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:46:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On first impressions the Mediastar HDX9100 looks to be quite a nice fully featured satellite receiver that has had some time spent on the design and development of the receiver functions, something that isn't to common these days as receiver manufactures and reseller are driven to get the new models ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/10/mediastar-hdx9100-pvr-review/ [caption id="attachment_281" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Asiasat 5 Footprint"][/caption] The first service cutover from Asiasat 2 to Asiasat 5 was successfully conducted on September 17 at 22.15 UTC. All services are planned to be transferred by the end of September. Already many viewers are reporting increased signal levels from this new satellite. Asiasat ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/10/asiasat-5-cutover-complete/ Hot on the heels of Senator Conroy’s announcement last month that there would be no 4th free to air television network for Australia, comes the news that Telstra is believed to be planning the release of a PVR called “T Box” by the end of the year. According to a news ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/10/bigpond-to-be-australias-fourth-tv-network/ [caption id="attachment_274" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Artist Impression"][/caption] Japan’s indigenous H-2B rocket successfully launched the HTV cargo transporter on September 11 for a week long voyage to the ISS. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and at 15 minutes and 6 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed.The HTV ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/10/japans-htv-launched/ [caption id="attachment_269" align="alignright" width="189" caption="Photo: Palapa D1 rises from the Xichang Credit: Spacelaunchreport.com"][/caption] Palapa D1, owned by Indonesian telco Indosat, suffered a third stage launcher mishap on August 31 during the launch sequence from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province. Consequently the satellite was placed in an ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/10/the-rescue-of-palapa-d1-a-thales-alenia-triumph/ [caption id="attachment_264" align="alignright" width="300" caption="DigiAir Pro "][/caption] Hot on the heels of last month’s review of Emitor’s G2 Microlook, is their offering for terrestrial TV installers, the Digiair Pro. This is an affordable, hand held meter capable of spectrum display, BER, MER and SNR measurements. The Av–Comm version comes with ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/09/digiair-pro-new-terrestrial-field-strength-meter/ [caption id="attachment_259" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Chinasat 6B Footprint "][/caption] On Monday the 21st of September 2009 Central China Television has re shuffled the CCTV 4, 9, E & F services to a new transponder on Chinasat 6B. This re-shuffle has allowed additional services to be added to this transponder including an Arabic ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/09/chinasat-6b-cctv-4-9-re-shuffle/ [caption id="attachment_254" align="alignright" width="287" caption="KLSV-1"][/caption] South Korea’s indigenous KSLV-1 launcher lifted off from the Naro Space Centre on August 25, but failed to launch a scientific observation satellite into low Earth orbit. A previous launch attempt several days earlier was halted when “abnormal data’ was observed during the automated launch sequence. The launch ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/09/kslv-1-launch-successful-satellite-missing/ Publicly listed telecommunications firm PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation Tbk (Indosat) is set to launch its second satellite later this month. Palapa D1 is scheduled to be launched from the Xichang Launch Centre, China on August 31 aboard a Long March 3B launcher. The satellite, said to have cost US$220 million, was built ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/09/palapa-d-launch/ Well known Swedish manufacturer  Emitor, recently send us one of their Microlook G2 units for evaluation. Here’s what we found……….. The first sentence of the User Manual says it all..”This unit is made for exact alignment of satellite dishes” and that is exactly what it delivers. Our experience with Emitor products goes ... http://pacificsatellitenews.com.au/2009/09/satlook-g2-a-new-instrument-for-installers/