This is great, spent a lot of time reading about this kind of stuff (from books like this: http://www.amazon.com/Satellite-Technology-Principles-Applications-Ma

This is great, spent a lot of time reading about this kind of stuff (from books like this: http://www.amazon.com/Satellite-Technology-Principles-Applications-Maini/dp/1118636473 http://www.amazon.com/Satellite-Technology-Principles-Applic... ) before I went to work on a ship with the task of maintaining the satellite connection. Turned out I didn't have much control over our traffic on the satellite side, but it was interesting nonetheless to think of what was happening to our traffic once it reached there.