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Two more eclipse casualties?

Submit on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 05:11

In the night of 3 to 4 October Hotbird 3/Eurobird 10 experienced an anomaly at the end of the eclipse period which has resulted in substantial damage to a solar array and subsequent loss of satellite power, Eutelsat said. The company also reported a temporary outage of Eutelsat W3A.

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