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Card 818 of 9852026-09-16 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-16

Sun Outage Calculator

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A satellite-communications calculator that predicts geostationary sun-outage windows from satellite, frequency band, antenna size, season, and earth-station location.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-16 issue.

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The calculator combines a satellite catalog, RF parameters, and a pinned earth-station position before generating a timetable. Its visible catalog contains 920 satellites, with examples including AMOS-17, NILESAT 201, and EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13G. Results include UTC start, peak, and end times, outage duration, closest solar separation, and elevation values; the displayed example covers March 9–11, 2026 and can be exported to Excel.

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