Historical
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| Date of disposal | Satellite | Satellite bus |
Source | Operator | Type | Coverage | Launch date/rocket (GMT) | Locations | Remarks | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-10-01 20:37 GMT |
Thaicom 3 | Spacebus 3000 A | Thailand | Shin Satellite | Comsat | Middle East and South Asia | 16 April 1997, Ariane 44LP | 78.5°E | Retired after power system failure | 2008-01-01 |
| 2008-11-09 | NigComSat-1 | DFH-4 | Nigeria | NASRDA | Communication satellite | 4 C-band, 14 Ku band & 2 L-band covering Africa. 8 Ka band covering Africa and Italy | 13 May 2007, Long March 3B | 42.5°E (2007–2008) | Power system failure | 2008-11-19 |
| 2008-07-14 | EchoStar-2 | AS-7000 | US | Echostar/DISH Network | Direct Broadcasting | 11 September 1996, Ariane 4 | 119°W (1996-1999), 148.0°W (1999—2008) | Failed in orbit 2008-07-14, slowly drifting east | 2008-11-19 |
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Famous quotes containing the word historical:
“Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)
“It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately come all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)