by David Todd | Aug 20, 2019 | Launches, Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
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...
by David Todd | Aug 9, 2019 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News
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....
by David Todd | Oct 11, 2018 | International Space Station, NASA, Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
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...
by David Todd | Jun 1, 2018 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News
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...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2018 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Dr Benjamin (Ben) Carlson, Senior Research Scientist at Intelligent Automation Inc., has notified Seradata of an error on the SpaceTrak database with respect to the likely cause of an anomaly to the GOES-4 spacecraft in 1982. The original report noted that a surface...
by David Todd | Jan 11, 2018 | Reliability Info, Satellites, Seradata News
The broadband satellite services company Viasat has disclosed that the VIASAT-2 has an anomaly relate do its beams and antenna. The Boeing-built VIASAT-2 satellite system which was launched in June 2017 is expected to significantly improve speeds, reduce costs and...
