Thruster on JCSAT-1B Causes A Scare

JSAT, Japan's oldest satellite communications company, had a couple of bad days beginning Jan. 17 when it lost stability control of its Boeing JCSAT-1B spacecraft. The outage affected about 50 industrial clients. A JSAT/Boeing investigation revealed that one of 12 attitude-control thrusters had...

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