Sea Launch officially preparing for DirecTV 11 launch in March

by Darren Murph posted Feb 14th 2008 at 5:29PM

We had a hunch DirecTV's next bird would be departing from our sight sometime in March, and sure enough, a new note on the Sea Launch website confirms that preparations are being made to blast D11 off into orbit next month. As if that wasn't proof enough, the "Current Launch" section of the site details the entire mission and provides a link to tune in via streaming video once the trip is underway. Hang tight, DTV subscribers -- it seems that even more HD will be on the way sooner rather than later.

[Thanks, Jeremy K.]

Filed under: Industry, Satellite

Tags: bird, breaking news, BreakingNews, d11, directv, directv 11, Directv11, launch, satellite, sea launch, SeaLaunch

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Miggity @ Feb 14th 2008 5:46PM

Where's my Echostar satellites?!

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Andy Sullivan @ Feb 14th 2008 10:57PM

Where is this "more HD" going to come from. You need some content before you can broadcast it. What new HD stations are out there chomping at the bit for someone to broadcast them?

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Old7 @ Feb 14th 2008 9:24PM

March 14th is the scheduled date for the AMC-14 launch on a Proton.

But it is not for new HD channels like DirecTV 11. It is a replacement for E3, a failing Echostar satellite.

More information here: http://www.dbstalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=11

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kcmurphy88 @ Feb 15th 2008 11:55AM

The big deal with this satellite is HD locals for a lot of areas -- the D10 sat had some broken spot-beams and this delayed the local HD rollout. DirecTV's simultaneous rollout of the H21/HR21 HD untis that did not have over-the-air tuners was a big issue because of this delay in satellite-delivered HD locals.

Lots of folks in small market cities are going to get their HD locals when this launches.

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