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goes_sat: OOH! OOH!

fuse_sat writes to goes_sat:

Far up above me
A steady diamond gleams
Against the black velvet sky.

Twenty precious minutes
Out of every hundred
I feel her DCPI.

Soft S-band pulses
bpsk'd, qpsk'd, 8psk'd
lost in each others dY.

EOS. The cold equations
Break our contact.
Transponder tingles.

Steady, constant,
She'll be there
When gravity brings me by.

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