Drifting satellite threatens US cable programming

hosted ^ | May 11

[JoeProBono]

LONDON (AP) -- A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday.

Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 8....

[JoeProBono]

[mainsail that]

HBO, we have a problem.

[Paladin2]

Turn off your TV, there’s no useful life down there.

[mdmathis6]

“Sattelite 15, where are you????”

[DoughtyOne]

That’s okay. We’ll just send up a shuttle.

Oh. Wait...

[Star Traveler]

Ooops... does that mean I’m going to lost a lot of cable channels? [ ... it’s a good thing I’ve got the Internet ... :-) ...]

[Buckeye McFrog]

uh oh....if Lifetime, Oxygen, MTV and the Game Show Network all go down, we could have a situation in the streets that makes Greece look like a Sunday picnic...

[Obadiah]

Oh man! You want to see some rioting in American cities? Take away Oprah, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Judge Joe Brown!! Woo boy.

[concerned about politics]

I hope it doesn’t come down and land on my strawberries. I like strawberries.

[swain_forkbeard]

Now that’s it! Tornados, oil spills, bailouts, wars and taxes I can deal with. But cable TV disruption. Prep those ASATs.

[JRandomFreeper]

Time to test some of that ASAT hardware from the late '80s in a real-world test.

I'm not ignoring the possibility of FODing the entire orbit. I'm just giving it a hand-wave. I don't watch TV.

/johnny

[FlingWingFlyer]

It could be a long, hot summer with rioting in the streets. I hope they can get this fixed for the idiots.

[Willie Green]

It’s a good thing that Dad taught me how to substitute a coat hanger for rabbit ears.

[concerned about politics]

Oh man! You want to see some rioting in American cities? Take away Oprah, Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Judge Joe Brown!! Woo boy.

GrrrrrrrrGeorge Bush.

[JoeProBono]

[bgill]

Oh, yeah, sure, that’s just my cable company’s next excuse why my cable is out yet again.

[JoeProBono]

[DoughtyOne]

Well Johnny, it seems they’ll have to do something.

[afnamvet]

uh oh....if Lifetime, Oxygen, MTV and the Game Show Network all go down, we could have a situation in the streets that makes Greece look like a Sunday picnic...

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