Intelsat Suffers Likely Satellite Loss

ariane 5 liftoff

Arianespace launched both the Intelsat IS-33e and IS-36 in August 2016 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace
Intelsat has suffered a major failure of one of its spacecraft, creating, according to the U.S. Space Force, around 20 pieces of associated debris. Intelsat has only said it lost power on one of its satellites serving Europe, Africa and some of the Asia-Pacific region and that it suspects the...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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