Equipment failure, not collision, damaged X-ray satellite: JAXA

Equipment failure, not collision, damaged X-ray satellite: JAXA

Saku Tsuneta, vice president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, talks about the unresponsive Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite at a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2016. The satellite has likely been damaged by equipment failure rather than by a collision with space junk, according to the space agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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