Another Intelsat 'anomaly' causes lost satellite

[TuxCoder]

<div class="bbWrapper">I didn&#039;t see this posted anywhere on here already...<br /> <br /> &quot;Intelsat, Ltd. announced today that its IS-804 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.&quot;<br /> <br /> From <a href="http://www.intelsat.com/aboutus/press/release_details.aspx?year=2005&amp;art=20050116_01_EN.xml&amp;lang=en&amp;footer=85" target="_blank" class="link link--external link--favicon link--favicon--before" style="background-image:url('https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.intelsat.com');" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">here</a>.<br /> <br /> This satellite seems to basically host the American Forces Network (with Pentagon Channel in the clear) for northeast Asian coverage, according to <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/i804.html" target="_blank" class="link link--external link--favicon link--favicon--before" style="background-image:url('https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.lyngsat.com');" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">LyngSat</a>.<br /> The AFN has information on their resulting outage <a href="http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/tv/press_releases/bulletin.asp?id=299&amp;pg=\bulletin\PacSatDown.htm" target="_blank" class="link link--external link--favicon link--favicon--before" style="background-image:url('https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil');" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">here</a>.<br /> <br /> You might remember, Intelsat Americas 7 was declared a total loss back in November (but miraculously recovered shortly after).</div>

 

[truckracer]

<div class="bbWrapper"><b>intelsat anomaly</b><br /> <br /> This is interesting. Another electrical anomaly (hope i spelled that right). It seems kind of fishy that these satellites that carry government comunications are experiencing problems. Like you said I remember Telstar 7 or IA-7 (can&#039;t get used to that new name) was supposed to be a total loss and voila its back, but I am not sure that it is at 100% operation. On Lyngsat.com, the last time I looked, many of the tp&#039;s were blank. Maybe due to them not being rented out or just not working.<br /> <br /> Although it would not be out of question for a satellite to fail, with the terrorism scare our country now faces, it makes people wonder. <br /> <br /> Could a satellite be put out of commision by an electro magnet pulse from a terrorist? Or some type of electronic weapon. I was reading on a news blog once that China is developing these types of weapons for use against the U.S. <br /> <br /> It is kind of scary really. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></div>