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Hot Seat: Will McCain Be Bush's Third Term? {Political Machine Blog}
Jun 27th 2008 1:44PM I would rather 100 more Bush terms then even 1 liberal Democrap term
Darwin meets PC gold-stripping alchemist, Darwin wins {Engadget}
Apr 4th 2008 7:26PM The story is innacurate. The guy was in a town called Colbert, in Olahoma. I live in the same county as this guy, and this has been all over the news for about a week now. He is dead, and his wife is still in critical condition.
AMC-14 mishap apt to delay DISH Network's HD rollout {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2008 4:55PM It's not like Dish is going to just roll over and die. Charlie is going to pull something together. Dish has enough room to put up about 50 HD channels. They were going to use AMC-14 to help alleviate the demand on their existing sats.
DISH Network's AMC-14 satellite fails to reach orbit {Engadget HD}
Mar 15th 2008 10:52AM Yes, news today from spaceflightnow.com says :
"In an update posted on its Web site, Roscosmos said the stage and the AMC 14 payload reached an orbit with a high point of about 17,400 miles, about 5,000 miles short of the intended altitude at the end of the burn.
The Breeze M deployed the spacecraft shortly after the early engine shutdown, and SES AMERICOM will now be faced with making future plans for the stranded satellite, Roscosmos said. AMC 14 could reach its target orbit if there is enough space fuel on-board, or officials could elect to use a dramatic lunar fyby to use the moon's gravity to slingshot the craft into geosynchronous orbit. Such a maneuver succeeded in 1998 for AsiaSat 3, another satellite victim of a Proton failure."
So it seems there is still hope, be it very small as AMC could still decide to self destruct it for insurance purposes (they might not get paid if they move it into orbit)
