New video of Intelsat 29e satellite reveals dramatic “anomaly”

The Intelsat 29e anomaly comes amid a string of satellite issues in geostationary orbit, where large communications and observation satellites can look down at the same area of the planet without expending fuel to maintain their position. During the last two years, satellites such as AMC-9, Telkom-1, AMOS-5, Eutelsat-33B, EchoStar-3, and Galaxy 11 have all experienced on orbit anomalies.

"Our team is reviewing this data to identify any potential trends, commonalities, and potentially common causes with incidents," Hendrix said. "We’re hopeful that our analysis will find compelling evidence to understand what happened with Intelsat 29e, and possibly previous on orbit anomalies."

WOW.....11 of the same kind of satellites having similar issues?

Sounds like it might be counter intelligence operations.

Fascinating.

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