Intelsat Bird Dawn Hits Snag

Intelsat is struggling to deploy the west antenna reflector on its New Dawn satellite, and has postponed deployment of the east Ku-band antenna reflector until the problem is fixed. The spacecraft's solar arrays deployed after its Ariane 5 launch April 22 along with the Yahsat 1A satellite. Intelsat...

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