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LightSquared confirmed that its SkyTerra 1 satellite recently suffered an outage but has now been recovered.

Roskosmos has released the report of a commission that examined the failure of Russia’s Fobos-Grunt probe. Although there are contradicting media reports as to the exact root cause (possibly because a lot of things went wrong prior to launch), one thing has become clear: the spacecraft’s problems were in fact home-made. Moreover, it seems it had never any chance of success.

The head of Russia’s space agency said that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a “low-quality imported component” may have been vulnerable to the radiation.
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The crash of Russia’s Meridian communications satellite was caused by the malfunction of one of the satellite carrier rocket’s engines, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roskosmos said.
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Before the reentry of Russia’s Fobos-Grunt Mars probe on 15 January, ESA established a final prediction for reentry of 1745 UTC, referring to an altitude of 10 km. Within the expected uncertainties, the prediction has been largely confirmed by observations.

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While many media still discuss the highly unlikely theory that a U.S. radar may have zapped Russia’s Fobos-Grunt spacecraft, a much more plausible scenario has finally surfaced: a software error could be the root cause of the probe’s malfunction.
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Russia’s new Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said he will oversee the probe into the reasons of the Fobos-Grunt mission failure.
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