{"id":50297,"date":"2024-10-22T00:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelsats-is-33e-satellite-is-a-total-loss\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T00:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:13:58","slug":"intelsats-is-33e-satellite-is-a-total-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelsats-is-33e-satellite-is-a-total-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelsat\u2019s IS-33e Satellite is a \u2018Total Loss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Intelsat <\/b>confirmed on Monday the Intelsat-33e satellite is a \u201ctotal loss\u201d after a recent anomaly. Intelsat first reported a service outage on the satellite on Oct. 19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>U.S. Space Forces-Space<\/b> (S4S) on Saturday confirmed the satellite broke up in orbit. S4S is currently tracking 20 pieces of debris while conducting ongoing analysis and reported no immediate threats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat said on Monday the operator is coordinating with satellite manufacturer Boeing and government agencies to analyze data and observations. The operator has started a failure review board to find the cause of the anomaly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outage is impacting customers in Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacific region. Intelsat said that migration and service restoration plans are underway across the Intelsat fleet and third-party satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat-33e was built by Boeing based on the 702MP satellite bus and entered service in 2017 at 60 degrees East orbital position. It has a mixed C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band payload.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is part of the Intelsat Epic high throughput satellite (HTS) series, which consists of IS-29e, IS-33e, and IS-32e all based on the same Boeing platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second in-orbit failure for the Epic fleet \u2014 IS-29e failed in 2019 after the propulsion system sprung a leak and the satellite could not be recovered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat confirmed on Monday the Intelsat-33e satellite is a \u201ctotal loss\u201d after a recent anomaly. Intelsat first reported a service outage on the satellite on Oct. 19.&nbsp; U.S. Space Forces-Space (S4S) on Saturday confirmed the satellite broke up in orbit. S4S is currently tracking 20 pieces of debris while conducting ongoing analysis and reported no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}