The Boeing-built Spaceway 1 spacecraft suffered an anomaly in December that caused “significant and irreversible” thermal damage to its batteries. The spacecraft’s owner DirecTV has informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it will be retiring the...
It has been reported that customers on the Thaicom 5 communications satellite have been moved to other satellites following a telemetry issue that is preventing control of the spacecraft. The nearly 14-year-old spacecraft was coming to the end of its design...
After the US$416 million loss of the Falcon Eye 1 in a Vega launch failure, it was reported that the Chinasat-18 (Zhongxing-18) satellite has suffered a similar demise – albeit after a successful launch by a Chinese Long March 3B/G2. The launch took place at...
The cause of the forced retirement of Intelsat 29e has been found and it was not what was originally thought. Intelsat 29e suffered a power failure and loss of control of the satellite on 7 April due to what was assumed to be a propellant leak or thruster issue....
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the crewed Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, which was launched at 0840 GMT on 11 October 2018 from the Baikonur launch site near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, has suffered a fault during its climb into orbit and failed to achieve orbital velocity. A...
The communications satellite Apstar 6 operating over 134 degrees East in the geostationary arc, is reported to have had to turn off several of its transponders following a solar array fault discovered on 27 May 2018. As a result, the Hong Kong-based owner of the...
