The financial performance of the sector has also been strained. Losses from satellite insurance exceeded premiums in several ...

Intelsat plans India broadcast with Sony & others, explores local startups for satellite tech, and gears up for software-defined satellite deployment.

Intelsat 33e’s break-up in geostationary orbit highlights an emerging threat for the contested space domain, an executive at U.S.-based space-tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions said Dec. 10 ...

Located at 60 degrees East, the 6.6-ton 33e high throughput satellite was designed and manufactured by Boeing Space Systems. Replacing Intelsat 904, the satellite had a mixed C-band, Ku-band, and ...

Debris from an exploded telecommunications satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening other spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation by a leading space ...

On October 19, 2024, Boeing’s Intelsat 33e, a high-stakes communication satellite, abruptly failed and broke apart while in geostationary orbit, 35,000 kilometers above Earth. Known as a part of ...

Tracking and identifying space debris is a challenging task. At higher altitudes, such as Intelsat 33e’s orbit around 35,000km up, we can only see objects above a certain size.

We know IS-33e has exploded. A few images of the Intelsat 33E (2016-053B/41748) debris, recorded this night, 2024-10-21, between 17:45 and 18:08 UTC.

We know IS-33e has exploded. A few images of the Intelsat 33E (2016-053B/41748) debris, recorded this night, 2024-10-21, between 17:45 and 18:08 UTC.

More debris has been detected from the Intelsat 33e communications satellite that disintegrated over the Indian Ocean, threatening hundreds of satellites in geostationary orbit, including those ...

On October 19, 2024, the Intelsat 33e satellite suffered a catastrophic malfunction in geostationary orbit, resulting in its fragmentation into over 57 pieces of space debris. The event disrupted ...

Boeing's Intelsat 33e satellite — a large communications satellite — has mysteriously broken up in orbit, scattering at least 20 chunks of space junk across Earth's skies and affecting users across ...