Outer space hits home

By Joshua Eli Berezin on November 30, 2004 12:58 PM | | Comments (0)

satellite_in_space_md_wht.gifIntelsat, Ltd. said that its Intelsat Americas-7 satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly that caused the permanent loss of the spacecraft on November 28, 2004 at approximately 2:30 am EST.

The IA-7 satellite carried Jessica's family's Internet service. It also also served as the state of Nebraska's lottery ticket sales communications network. Nebraskans have been locked out from purchasing tickets for the $127 million Powerball jackpot. All 950 lottery outlets in the state were affected by the outage.

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