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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 1166910" data-attributes="member: 175144">The BBC article is years old, I've seen it word for word elsewhere. Skynet 1A drifted after communication was lost a few years after the main bus failed. It had been moved at least once from the original spot above Nairobi, Kenya.The TWTAs stopped working around 16 months after launch (thermal cycling causing component and wiring failure)Some historySkynet 1 was operated by the RAF’s No.1001 Signals Unit (1001 SU) located at RAF Oakhanger in Hampshire.sub-units: Ground Operations, Telemetry and Control, Support and Space Operations, the last being responsible for operating Skynet with C2 traffic being passed from one of the three ground stations.RAF Oakhanger was closed in 2003 and all support to Skynet was transferred from the RAFvia contract to a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) partnership between Paradigm SecureCommunications and the Astrium subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and SpaceCompany’s (EADS).[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies/aspr/aspr-vol24-iss2-5-pdf/[/URL]and the official designation[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60a66d4fe90e071b5a7c001a/UK_Registry_of_Space_Objects_May_2021.pdf[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 1166910, member: 175144"] The BBC article is years old, I've seen it word for word elsewhere. Skynet 1A drifted after communication was lost a few years after the main bus failed. It had been moved at least once from the original spot above Nairobi, Kenya. The TWTAs stopped working around 16 months after launch (thermal cycling causing component and wiring failure) Some history Skynet 1 was operated by the RAF’s No.1001 Signals Unit (1001 SU) located at RAF Oakhanger in Hampshire. sub-units: Ground Operations, Telemetry and Control, Support and Space Operations, the last being responsible for operating Skynet with C2 traffic being passed from one of the three ground stations. RAF Oakhanger was closed in 2003 and all support to Skynet was transferred from the RAF via contract to a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) partnership between Paradigm Secure Communications and the Astrium subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company’s (EADS). [URL unfurl="true"]https://raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies/aspr/aspr-vol24-iss2-5-pdf/[/URL] and the official designation [URL unfurl="true"]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60a66d4fe90e071b5a7c001a/UK_Registry_of_Space_Objects_May_2021.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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