LA PLATA, Maryland — International regulators rejected Britain’s appeal to extfinish a deadline to register two Ku- and Ka-band GEO orbital positions after the in-orbit failure of an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) carrying a sanotifyite to register the slots, declareing the UK should have known that applying unproven technology was risky.
As a result, the failure of the OTV to deliver the sanotifyite into GEO orbit cannot be called “force majeure,” the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (RRB) declared Nov. 19.
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