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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has decided to complete operations of its Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) by sending a shut-off command on 12 May as the agency found it was impossible to recover communication with the spacecraft.
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Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite “Daichi” has lost power and may be a total loss.
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Russia’s geostationary military communication satellite Raduga 1-7 has likely lost communications with the flight control centre, Interfax news agency reported.

NASA’s Glory mission ended prematurely after the spacecraft failed to reach orbit following its launch aboard a Taurus XL from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Contact has apparently been lost with the GEO-IK-2 satellite, which was launched into a useless orbit in February.
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