Badr 6 failure

[Analoguesat]

This has been mentioned on on of the fringe reception threads but I cant see a general mention. Badr 6 is in trouble - it suffered a failure of some sort in the last couple of days

Badr 6 satellite off air after failure - RXTV

Satellite operator Arabsat has confirmed one of its satellites has suffered a complete failure this week.

rxtvinfo.com

https://www.arabsat.com/english/media-center/news-press-and-events/business/announcement

can anyone in the service area confirm if Badr 6 has been successfully restarted?

 

[Orbitalzone_Delta]

Still out of service.. No signal at the moment.

 

[Analoguesat]

Shes still on station & doesnt appear to be drifting to any great degree so it must be an electrical (power generation?) failure

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[Satfaca]

No true, all seems back to normal, at least at my place. See report here.
Including C band:

 

[Analoguesat]

But is it coming off Badr 6 or has the traffic been swapped to one of the co located birds?

No real idea what the 26E situation is - this far north the availability of 26E has always been very limited. (Badr4 & once one single tp off Es'hail 1 - and its been a long time since Ive had any success with Badr4)

 

[danny10]

For me, all frequencies are more than 2 dB weaker. Other Badres in normal.

 

[Satfaca]

But is it coming off Badr 6 or has the traffic been swapped to one of the co located birds?

Considering that only BADR-6 carries C-band transponders the answer is pretty obvious.
But there is indeed noticable decrease in power in 12GHz tps here.

 

[Satfaca]

Current situation at my site:





Hardly waiting for BADR 8.

 

[Captain Jack]

My 1.8m is out of action - suspecting a failed Ku LNB (C is fine), so cannot check.

 

[hvdh]

Since July, Badr 6 is being allowed to become inclined, almost 0.2° now.
Badr 8 will come to the rescue, but will take a few months to reach GEO, be tested, and ready to go.
In the graph below, note the slight impact of the event back in February.