Tell us a bit about ur job/occupation/business

[z0mb13]

Currently work at a Satellite Teleport performing uplinks/downlinks, basically we take a signal from one satellite and transmit it back up to another.

Also maintain/repair the antennas, at last count we have 65 antennas ranging in size from 3 meter to 14 meters.

My company owns approximately 58 satellites.

wow very interesting!
So how does satellite ownership works? Is the ownership of a satellite shared by various parties and each can put a antenna up there? Or is it more like property in outer space that you can rent to install your equipment? (like antenna)

 

[Engineer]

Currently work at a Satellite Teleport performing uplinks/downlinks, basically we take a signal from one satellite and transmit it back up to another.

Also maintain/repair the antennas, at last count we have 65 antennas ranging in size from 3 meter to 14 meters.

My company owns approximately 58 satellites.

Damn, cool stuff.

(I assume when you way "My company", you mean the one you work for, not own? correct?).

 

[Godsend1]

Damn, cool stuff.

(I assume when you way "My company", you mean the one you work for, not own? correct?).

lol, that is correct.

 

[Godsend1]

wow very interesting!
So how does satellite ownership works? Is the ownership of a satellite shared by various parties and each can put a antenna up there? Or is it more like property in outer space that you can rent to install your equipment? (like antenna)

We contract for the construction of the spacecraft, we then lease bandwidth/power. We own the spacecraft and charge people money to use it.

Also, (at this time) once it's in geo-stationary orbit you cannot physically access the spacecraft .

 

[mmntech]

I'm a traffic briefer/desk operator for a cable news station. It's for a new division that's doing it all on the web/apps as our primary focus, with TV being secondary. We currently do one city but will be expanding across Canada in the next year or so.

I generate the reports for our on camera presenters as well as do content for the website. The technology behind it is still teething though. Right now it just gives you traffic flow, video reports, and incidents on a map. The eventual goal is to have our app route you based on real-time traffic conditions. The real road block is getting the server capacity and speeding up the process. We get our information from multiple sources: government, live CCTV cameras, police scanners, and crowd sourcing. Most other apps just use a single source.