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A few details have emerged regarding the thermal problems of India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe, but it’s not definitely known which role they played in the spacecraft’s recent demise.
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Palapa D has arrived in geostationary transfer orbit, its manufacturer Thales Alenia Space (TAS) announced. There are indications that the new orbit is somewhat suboptimal, though.
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The article about the partial launch failure may have confused some readers, for which I apologise. However, as can be imagined not many details have emerged so far, which makes coverage somewhat difficult.
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Indonesia’s Palapa D satellite was stranded in a lower-than-desired orbit after the failure of the Chang Zheng 3B launch vehicle’s third stage. The satellite itself is well, but it seems unlikely it could be salvaged.
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ISRO has abandoned its Chandrayaan-1 moon mission after efforts to revive communication with it failed, officials said. The radiation environment in lunar orbit was blamed for the sudden demise of the probe.
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Radio contact with India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe was abruptly lost at 2000 UTC on 28 August 2009. “Detailed review of the Telemetry data received from the spacecraft is in progress and health of the spacecraft subsystems is being analysed,” ISRO said in a terse statement.

South Korean officials said the STSAT-2 experimental satellite it attempted to put into orbit yesterday aboard a KSLV-1 launcher probably burned up in the atmosphere. The failure seems to have been caused by one half of the payload fairing remaining attached to the second stage.
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Landsat 5 is back under control and restarted imaging on 14 August, one day after it lost attitude for yet unknown reasons.
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