Satellite made by Boeing a ‘total loss’ after space ‘anomaly’

A Boeing-made satellite has been deemed a “total loss” following a space “anomaly,” operator Intelsat said in a statement on Monday.

Issues with the IS-33e that was launched in August 2016 and entered service in January 2017 were first publicized by Intelsat on Saturday. The McLean, Virginia, company said then that the service outage on the satellite affected customers in Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacif