Satellite Furniture Manufacturer
Submitter Cybervox points us to a suspicious building that supposedly houses a furniture manufacturer, yet has almost a dozen satellite dishes in various sizes. His website has ground level photos and speculation on what goes on there.
Government conspiracy or a guy with a lot of TV channels? Decide for yourselves.
Update: If you can’t be bothered deciding for yourself then read this very thorough comment from kjfitz, who completely debunks the conspiracy theories.
Thanks: Cybervox & kjfitz
What was that movie with Robert Redford and Dan Ackroyd with Ben Kingsley the baddie - Hackers?
Didnt the baddy have his hideout in a supposed toy company with big dishes on the roof ? Similiar layout to this building aswell.
Like you say perhaps the boss just likes to watch all the furniture channels from around the world (if there is such a thing as a furniture channel!)
“And here we see the magnificent couch. Upholstered in muted tones, he moves swiftly among his environment, stalking his prey. He is target comes into veiw. A herd of docile coffee tables graze lazily in the grass, unaware of their fate. In one fell swoop the couch pounces. His three pluch cusions make short work of the coffee table and he messily devours the meal. The pack of ottomans will have to wait their turn.”
The Movie was Sneakers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/combined
Looks like some sort of NSA branch to me — they need a lot of dishes to tap us all.
I don’t know what to make of the conspiracy web sites but the FCC lists this as OrionNet, Inc. and even gives the same geographic coordinates.
(top of page 2)
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Public_Notices/2000/pnin0011.pdf
There is somewhat sparse home page at http://www.orionnet.ccom for an OrionNet that says they are a provider of “Reality priced IT Services for Small & Medium businesses.”
An SEC filing at also refers to this site and says it was owned by Orion Newco Services Inc. Part was sold in 1992 and the rest leased to Orion Atlantic.
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:rsqilCb-5NwJ:getfilings.com/o0001005150-97-000219.html+orionnet+%22mount+jackson%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
In February 1992, Orion sold its earth station facility at Mount Jackson, Virginia, but retained six acres of land at that location plus access to certain capacity and facilities. Orion has leased the land and facilities in Mount Jackson to Orion Atlantic for use as part of the TT&C Station.
The conspiracy website says the dishes are owned by Merillat, a cabinet maker. That address is 1325 Industrial Park Road while the FCC lists the antennas at 1305 Industrial Park Road.
These minutes of a local town meeting mention Merillat and describe the site as having a “very high elevator shaft” which coresponds to the site northeast of the dishes.
http://www.co.shenandoah.va.us/board_of_supervisors/minutes/2003/oct.28.03.htm
I don’t think the antennas have anything to do with Merillat.
Finally Loral Space & Communications mentions that (a) they purchased satellite facilities from Orion 1998 and (b) that they maintain facilities in Mount Jackson.
http://www.loral.com/overview/overview.html
The FCC resistered the transfer:
APPLICATION GRANTED ON 02/27/1998 FOR CONSENT TO TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF CORPORATION
HOLDING EARTH STATION AUTHORIZATION
SERVICE: DOMESTIC FIXED SATELLITE CLASS OF STATION: FIXED EARTH STATION
SERVICE: INTERNATIONAL FIXED SATELLITE
LOCATION: 1305 INDUSTRIAL PARK ROAD, MOUNT JACKSON, SHENANDOAH, VIRGINIA
FROM: ORION NETWORK SERVICES, INC.
TO: LORAL SPACE & COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Transfer of Control was granted by ORDERAND AUTHORIZATION, DA 98-409, released
February 27, 1998.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/International/Public_Notices/1998/pnin8065.txt
Loral CyberStar lists the sam location as theirs on their corporate web site.
http://www.dolinc.com/cyberstar-site/about/address.html
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Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
* POP *
there goes my bubble…..
remember that movie with charlie sheen??
aliens!!!
Note to self: Never get kjfitz pissed off at me.
Did no-one notice those weird shapes on the road just to the right of the building. WTF are they???
If you scroll down a bit and then to the right there is a crazy maze in the field across the street. Has anyone else noticed it?
On the Loral CyberStar website, the address list the Mt Jackson site as a “CyberStar Teleport”. Just below it, it has another station in Kapolei, Hawaii, also called a “CyberStar Teleport”.
MY GAWD, it’s a TELEPORT to Hawaii!!!
Right, kjfitz. Go ahead and believe exactly what they WANT you to believe.
It makes sense. I-84 is Virginia’s Technology Corridor. Mainly because many of Virginia’s major universities (VA Tech, James Madison, VMI, and UVA all sit along that corridor; as well as their proximity to Washington, DC (where the Internet started). There are also some major fiber routes that go through this area to connect DC, Atlanta and Texas.
So these dishes would be linked right up with the backbone.
These are commercial satellite dishes as they are used everywhere in the world. The place you can see here host 2 Teleports and I know one of them quite good. The reason why they are there is, that there are major fibre routes going through this area while at the same time it is a quiet valley without much interference.
Everybody who sets up a teleport will choose a place like this. Cybervox is paranoid, that’s all.
Jake