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More than one year after the explosion at Scaled Composites that killed three workers, it is still unknown what exactly caused the accident.

Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 1 small launch vehicle failed to reach orbit owing to a problem during the separation of the first and second stage. This appears to be the hugest setback for SpaceX so far as the failure occurred on the Falcon 1’s first operational flight.

DISH Network Corporation said in a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that its EchoStar 2 satellite has failed.

Only shortly after Russia denied last April that its Kosmos 2421 military satellite had disintegrated, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detected two fragmentation events that created a total of about 200 large, new parts of debris.

Eutelsat has declared four transponders aboard its W5 satellite permanently lost while the organisation Reporters Without Borders claimed the technical problems with the spacecraft were a welcome opportunity to get rid of controversial Chinese-language broadcaster NTDTV.

Galaxy 26 has lost more than half of its capacity after what seems to be a partial failure of its power system. The problem looks identical to that experienced by its “sister satellite” Galaxy 27 more than three years ago.

A Falun-Gong-backed TV channel has complained that “millions of households in China are no longer receiving” its satellite broadcast one week after a failure on Eutelsat’s W5 satellite.

The W5 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications experienced an anomaly to part of its power generator subsystem in the night of 16 to 17 June, the company announced.
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