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Intelsat Loses Another Satellite

Posted by timothy on from the space-is-a-harsh-realm dept.

Alarash writes "Intelsat reported a few days ago that its IS-804 Satellite is lost in space. According to the press release, the '[...] satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical power system anomaly on January 14, 2005, at approximately 5:32 p.m. EST that caused the total loss of the spacecraft.' The satellite was in charge of the South Pacific's media delivery. As a reminder, Intelsat-7, another satellite from Intelsat, got lost a couple of months ago."

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  1. Sunspot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could this possibly be related to the huge coronal mass ejection i read about Jan 15 sorry no story link but it found a picture
    http://www.spaceweather.com/images2005/16jan05/mid i140.gif

  2. Re:Why link to wikipedia?? by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I can't speak for either of those two examples, but I can't be the only person who has stumbled across a website for some organization, spent ten minutes browsing it, and still been totally confused as to what it is they actually do.

    Wikipedia can be nice because it gets to the point.

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    You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
  3. Re:Why link to wikipedia?? by iantri · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Wikipedia is not "someone's opinion"; it is supposed to be neutral, and factual.

    A company's own website can't make that claim.