Shmoo Seven

This one about broadcast satellites.

Yes, this is fascinating stuff for me, with my past in the broadcast industry.

I’m having flashbacks to cleaning fourteen inches of snow out of a C-Band reciever.

(I ended up buying every jug of windshield washer fluid at the 7-Eleven on the way to the transmitter site, and pouring that over the dish until I could get the dish clear enough to pull a signal again.)

The bit about the higher orbit for spent satellites is fascinating to me. I kind of had just figured they let them fall out of orbit. But that they send them higher, so they’re out-of-the-way explains the ring of space junk.