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Intelsat reported a delay in deploying one of the two solar arrays on the Intelsat 19 satellite, which was launched by Sea Launch on 1 June.

SES announced that the solar arrays aboard its…Read more

Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission is being declared.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, DISH DBS Corp. announced several recent satellite anomalies.

Optical, radar and laser observations of the…Read more

Two reports claim that the recent failure of North Korea’s Unha-3 rocket was caused by structural damage to the vehicle’s third stage. This would classify it as a typical Max-Q-failure (i.e. it occurred near the maximum of the dynamic pressure exerted upon the rocket during acceleration).
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