SkyNet 5A

[AtW]

SKA v2.0 ALPHA will have interface to it.

HTH

[pisces]

There were three very good documentaries about Skynet a few years back.

Very scary stuff.

They reckon that Skynet will wage nuclear war on the Earth and that robots will take over, eventually travelling back in time and attempting to kill a prominent key figure of the past.

Very scary stuff indeed.

Hope it doenst come true.

That'll make a good Hawkwind album

[xoggoth]

It already did but threaded travelled back in time and reversed it

[MarillionFan]

There were three very good documentaries about Skynet a few years back.

Very scary stuff.

They reckon that Skynet will wage nuclear war on the Earth and that robots will take over, eventually travelling back in time and attempting to kill a prominent key figure of the past.

Very scary stuff indeed.

Hope it doenst come true.

[xoggoth]

What cold? The insulation/reflectiveness of satellites is designed so that the electronics stays at a pretty constant temperature, usually a few degrees below zero.

[Troll]

Spoke too soon

The launch of the British military's Skynet 5 satellite has been postponed due to a last-minute technical glitch.

The delay was ordered when a fault was found in the "deluge" system that sprays water across the launch pad to keep it cool as the rocket lifts off.

[scooterscot]

Launches Saturday ... any good? or will it just be another target for the Chinese

better be my reliability analysis opps said too much already men in black coats appearing...

[Troll]

Launches Saturday ... any good? or will it just be another target for the Chinese

The whole Skynet 5 constellation has been funded through the largest Private Finance Initiative (PFI) signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The MoD does not own the hardware; it merely buys the services run over it.

Initially agreed in 2003, the PFI saw Paradigm Secure Communications, which is a subsidiary of EADS Astrium, take over and operate the UK's military satellite comms network.

UK forces have seen a steady upgrade in all their comms systems
As part of this £2.6bn deal, Paradigm agreed to loft new and more advance spacecraft, and overhaul the ground systems needed to support them. This has included replacing and updating control centres, and major antennas and terminals on military ships, vehicles and planes.

Paradigm gets an annual fee for providing this service. It can also earn money by selling excess bandwidth - expected to be about 50% on each spacecraft - to Nato and other friendly countries.

The cost to the British taxpayer of the PFI jumped by several hundred million pounds in 2005, principally because of a decision to go for the "physical assurance" of building a spare spacecraft rather than a straightforward insurance policy that would pay out in the event of a launch failure or breakdown in orbit.