Satellite News

A U.S. reconnaissance satellite is out of control and likely to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in February or March, government officials said. The highly unusual warning has raised questions as to what exactly is aboard the spacecraft that may cause damage on the ground.

A U.S. reconnaissance satellite is out of control and likely to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in February or March, government officials said. The highly unusual warning has raised questions as to what exactly is aboard the spacecraft that may cause damage on the ground.

South Korea is terminating the mission of its first multipurpose satellite Arirang 1, launched in 1999, after losing contact with it at the end of December.

Images sent by Japan’s ALOS “Daichi” satellite are “useless” for mapping purposes because of problems with the spacecraft, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

KazSat 1, the first Kazakh communications satellite, suffered a glitch in its control system on 9 January, resulting in an outage of several hours.

Satellite operator RASCOMSTAR QAF is still waiting for details regarding the helium leak aboard its recently launched RASCOM-QAF1 spacecraft, African Press Agency (APA) reported.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) said that it has lost communication with the country’s first multipurpose satellite, Arirang 1, on 30 December.

GOES-12 was successfully returned to normal on orbit mode as of Friday evening, 7 December 2007, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.