Unmaneuverable Starlinks Overreported, SpaceX Says
Three satellites in SpaceX's first-generation low earth orbit constellation lost maneuverability above injection altitude on Aug. 8 and 10 and Sept. 6, the company told the FCC International Bureau in a status report last week. SpaceX said sensitive components leading…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
to the altitude control or communications systems failures were replaced for future designs. It said its past status reports over-reported the number of Starlink satellites that lost maneuverability. SpaceX said the erroneously reported satellites are more than 25% of the total failures reported.