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Telstar 4 is Down

An anonymous reader writes "Sometime this morning (Sept. 19) Telstar 4 had a major onboard failure. I just checked a few minutes ago and there are CW carriers up on 11700 MHz V & 12200 MHz H, so the spacecraft would appear to still be in its orbital slot - just no traffic. The Loral Skynet site has no mention of this yet, but supposedly Telstar 8 was already scheduled to replace T4, so they may just speed the process up. This turn of events will no doubt be of some small concern to Intelsat, who recently agreed to purchase most of Loral's US domestic fleet, including T4."

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  3. Captain's Log: My Anus is too Fucking Tight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:I'm as stumped as my girlfriend usually is by Ken+Broadfoot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good god, you are right about this..

    "The Loral Skynet site has no mention of this yet, but supposedly Telstar 8 was already scheduled to replace T4"

    IMHO: WTF?

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    1. Re:So Who the Heck is GUL7 by SloWave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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