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Japan’s IGS 4B radar reconnaissance satellite stopped working on 23 August, the country’s government announced.
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Operations have begun to salvage the U.S. Air Force’s AEHF 1 satellite, which got stuck in its supersynchronous transfer orbit after a successful launch on 14 August.
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ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been hit by a software glitch and is currently unable to transmit science data.
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The recently launched first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite seems to have developed a problem that will at least delay its arrival in geostationary orbit.
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Zombie satellite Galaxy 15 has arrived in the vicinity of Galaxy 14, the third satellite it will fly by. Intelsat said that fly-by plans have been created and communicated to all Galaxy 14 customers.
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