25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
2:40 a.m.
Oscar-52 (VO-52) has been taken out of service. Despite efforts to keep VO-52 in operation the failing technology of the decade old satellite have not been successful. VO-52 has been in service over nine years. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said that VO-52's lithium-ion batteries had failed and the satellite was officially decommissioned on July 21st.
VO-52 (Cat # 28650) has been removed from the AMSAT KEPs distribution.
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Ray Hoad