pretty sure signals cant be sent satellite to satellite without it being recieved first on the earth station then being beamed back up to the satellite <br /><br />cause the footprint of pas8 australia beam reaches the USA abit <br />look at this shows how abit of the signal reaches the USA thats y its possible to beam the signal straight to pas8 ku australia beam<br />http://www.panamsat.com/_media/global_network/sat_pdf/pas8_ku_band.pdf