Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

Wed Apr 9 05:44:44 UTC 2008

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> At 11:49 PM 08-04-08 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>>> You can purchase these things from sattelite image services these days
>>> as well as get them from intelligence services.
>>
>> Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images?  Which satellite
>> do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships 
>> near the time the cables were broken?  Which company is selling that 
>> set of images?
> 
> http://www.eyeofdubai.com/v1/news/newsdetail-19123.htm

Those are geostationary.

hybrid in this case implies wide medium and narrow beam applications, 
like voice tv and internet...

http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/yahsat-1.htm

> -Hank
> 