Satellite tracking Atlantic hurricanes is broken

[Phil]

All those hurricanes that hit you, and you only have one satellite? Ever heard of 'constructive redundancy'? After all, we're only talking about a piffling half-a-billion dollars… Never mind, we'll rent you guys a spare.

Phil M1GWZ



On 27 Sep 2012, at 16:21, Bob Bruhns wrote:

> Just at hurricane season, when storms have been unusually strong, too.  Hopefully it's some software glitch that might be turning some system on and off rapidly, but it may be a stabilizer wheel failure, or some such.  Good thing there are other satellites that can provide some backup that can serve in the meantime, if not quite as well.
> 
>    Bob, WA3WDR
> 
> 
> On 9/27/2012 10:30 AM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>> 
>> Thought that some of AMRAD's space-focussed people might be interested...
>> 
>> http://hamptonroads.com/2012/09/satellite-tracking-atlantic-hurricanes-broken 
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