Some not-COVID-19-related news, Venezuela's VeneSat-1 satellite has been tumbling for 10 days in an elliptical orbit that gets within 50km of the GEO arc. No word on if the satellite can be recovered.https://spacenews.com/venezuelas-flagship-communications-satellite-out-of-service-and-tumbling/ …
Looks like the Chinese still have a long way to go in spacecraft reliability yet - cripping problem at 11.5 years of 15 planned for the longest serving of China's current main-stay GEO comsat bus (DFH-4) isn't good news for them given troubled history of this satellite bus.
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Do you happen to know the number or percentage of failures of this kind of bus?
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