Posted on 03/23/2020 8:09:36 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Venezuela’s first and only state-owned communications satellite has been out of service since March 13 when a series of maneuvers left it tumbling in an unusable orbit.
The VeneSat-1 satellite, built by China Great Wall Industry Corp and launched in late 2008 on a 15-year mission to provide television and broadband services to Venezuela, has been stuck for 10 days in an elliptical orbit above the geostationary arc, according to telescopic observations from two U.S. companies that track satellites.
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R. Roseannadanna
Sounds like it got moved to the junkyard orbit band.
Lasted 12 years. US and Russia have a had some that haven’t lasted that long.
Screw those Commie bastards and screw their wussy little Satellite
Time for the Space Force to spring into action.
A likely story.
Could be an excuse, a way for the Venezuela government to make the people even less informed than they are now.
looks like it may have fallen 3 years short of its expected life-time ...
Like Challenger?
China can’t blame this one ou the US.
Trying to “fail” commie junk into one of our defense or comm satellites?
They did piss poor parking too.
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