Intelsat 4 Failure Sent SANDF Scrambling for Bandwidth

摘要

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is still struggling to re cover from the loss of C-band capacity this year following the in-orbit failure on the Intelsat 4 satellite at 72 degrees east, according to Brig. Gen. Ian For dred of SANDF.rnFordred, director of information communication technology in the Com mand and Management Information Systems Division, said the 10 megahertz of capacity that SANDF had on Intelsat 4 has been replaced by reduced capaci ty on Intelsat 10 at 68.5 degrees east, and by a lease of capacity aboard Greece's Hellas Sat satellite at 39 de grees east.