30-08-2023, 10:05 PM
The 5 channel thing is even more odd sounding these days when you realise they had two satellites, each with 5 transponders. One satellite was purely for redundancy. Though that arrangement included the potential to expand the number of channels later on.
The IBA were really engineering their satellite service to terrestrial levels of redundancy even though satellite failures are rare
The IBA were really engineering their satellite service to terrestrial levels of redundancy even though satellite failures are rare