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The End of Express AM-4
The Express AM-4 satellite that had been stranded in a useless orbit since its failed launch last August, was intentionally deorbited on 25 March over the North Pacific Ocean. The satellites engines were fired about 1033 GMT to force the craft to enter Earth's...
Revolutionary change is happening for satellite operators
This Hyperbola blog post is written by guest writer and expert on the commercial satellite business, Roger Rusch, President, TelAstra, Inc. who makes his analysis of the main themes apparent at the Satellite 2012 communications satellite conference held in Washington...
ATV launch success – Flightglobal twitter feed
If you missed it live, replay the European Space Agency's latest Ariane 5 launch on twitter @thisdell - or, watch a replay on ESA TV
SkyTerra 1 update: it is alive and about to take back its customers
Lightsquared has issued an update to Flightglobal on the condition of its SkyTerra 1 satellite after it was knocked out by a solar storm: A network outage over our SkyTerra 1 satellite began at approximately at 13:30 GMT on 7 March. On 10 March, all traffic carried on...
Spaceway 3 temporarily knocked out by solar storm – LightSquared’s SkyTerra 1 may not be so lucky
The internet site broadbandreports.com has indicated that the Spaceway 3 communications satellite owned by Hughes Network Systems was knocked out as the result of a solar storm losing service from 0400GMT on 13 March. The service on that satellite was...
Aliens are sucking off fuel from our Sun!
The internet is awash with rumours that aliens are sucking off our sun in an attempt to refuel their planet sized spacecraft. This was after moving composite imagery taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and processed by NASA's NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,...
Aliens are sucking off fuel from our Sun!
The internet is awash with rumours that aliens are sucking off our sun in an attempt to refuel their planet sized spacecraft. This was after moving composite imagery taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and processed by NASA's NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,...
A SECOND CHANCE FOR EXPRESS AM-4?
The Express AM-4 satellite that was carried on a Proton M vehicle that suffered an upper stage failure on 17 August 2011 that left the satellite stranded in a 20416 by 657 kilometre orbit. The satellite was classed as a total insurance loss and was due to be...
Roscosmos head, Vladimir Popovkin, hospitalised after “fight over woman at party”
After dramatic newswire reports that General Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, had been hospitalised due to "physical and emotional exhaustion" the exact cause remains a mystery. The Russian newspapers originally noted that the Popovkin fell...
Space Insurers have successful run but fret about hacking, debris and policy attractiveness
In fixing the underwriting errors of the late 1990s and early 2000s,the space insurance market has had a series of mainly profitable years. Meantime, as the commercial demand for bandwidth hungry high definition television and broadband mobile services has grown which even the military makes use of, so has the demand for new large communications satellites. As a result the insurance market is set to benefit from insurance premium given that most major operators tend to insure the launch and first year in orbit.
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