Satellite News

Thaicom 3, only recently relocated to a new orbital position, has “experienced power loss to such an extent that it could not provide further service,” its operator Shin Satellite PCL said.

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down again, reports New Scientist.

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it failed to collect on an outstanding insurance claim submitted in August 2004.

Intelsat announced that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33 degrees East, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly on 22 September 2006 at approximately 0027 UTC.

A defective propellant regulator of a strap-on motor caused the failure of ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) F02 mission on 10 July, according to the Failure Analysis Committee (FAC).

ESA’s Venus Express las month suffered a glitch that put the spacecraft temporarily into safe mode, according to the latest status report.

The crash of a Dnepr launch vehicle shortly after takeoff from Baikonur cosmodrome at the end of July was caused by a failure in the operation of a hydraulic device, said Nikolai Anfimov, head of the failure investigation commission and general director of TsNIIMash.

Kosmotras, the company that markets Dnepr launches, said the crash of a Dnepr on 26 July was caused by a “short-time malfunctioning” of the rocket’s first stage engine.