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Landsat 5 tumbled out of control and power was at a critical level in the early morning of 13 August, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Orbcomm Inc. said it had lost communication with two Quick Launch Satellites over the past few weeks.
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Citing unnamed ISRO officials, The Hindu reports that the failure of the star sensor aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe was the second of its kind.
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Chandrayaan-1, launched on 22 October 2008, has completed eight months of successful operation and has made 3,000 revolutions around the Moon. The spacecraft also developed a problem with its star tracker. A workaround, which also explains a previously unannounced orbit-raising manoeuvre, has meanwhile been developed.
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A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, on 24 February has completed its report but could not pinpoint the root cause of the failure.
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China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co., Ltd (China DBsat) confirmed that Sinosat-3 had suffered a temporary outage. Technical details of the malfunction have not been unveiled.

Solaris Mobile and its shareholders, Eutelsat Communications and SES Astra, have announced that the investigation of its S-band payload has confirmed significant non-compliance from its original specifications.
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Two and a half years after it suddenly failed, the reason for the total loss of the military NRO-L21 (USA 193) satellite is still unknown.
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