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Space Systems/Loral and Sea Launch AG announced that the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) formed to investigate the solar array deployment anomaly on a satellite launched in the spring of 2012 – Intelsat 19 – has successfully reached a unanimous conclusion.

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Orbcomm Inc. said the single prototype of its second generation of satellites, launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Services (CRS-1) mission to the ISS on 8 October 2012 (UTC), verified various functionality checkouts prior to its deorbit. The OG2 prototype was deployed into a lower orbit as the result of a pre-imposed safety check required by NASA. This was caused by an engine failure on the Falcon 9 launcher’s first stage, which according to SpaceX will be subject to an investigation.
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U.S. Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton has ordered an Accident Investigation Board (AIB) to investigate why a Delta IV RL-10B-2 upper stage engine did not perform as expected during the 4 October launch of a GPS IIF satellite.
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Orbcomm Inc. confirmed that the company’s OG 2 satellite was deployed in a lower-than-planned orbit by the recently launched Falcon 9. As it turned out, the problem was a side-effect of the engine failure that occurred on the rocket’s first stage earlier into the flight.
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GOES-13 (East) has experienced a malfunction and is unable to generate imagery. Engineers are working on a fix and an estimated return to service is undetermined at this time.

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The Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) concluded the review of the Russian State Commission report on 11 September concerning the root cause of the Russian Federal Telkom-3/Ekspress MD-2 mission failure which occurred on 7 August.
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