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Himawari 6 suffers blackout, backup satellite takes over

Submit on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 05:56

Japan’s Himawari 6 weather satellite (aka MTSAT 1R) suffered an attitude loss on 11 November, 1225 UTC. Meteorological services have been switched to backup satellite Himawari 7 (MTSAT 2).

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