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Left in the lurch

Left in the lurch the history of India's satellites welcomes yet another orphan. The latest to be abandoned is the 2,070-kg, Rs 450-crore Insat 2d , launched on June 4 from Kourou, French Guyana. The chief reason for failure of the satellite - plagued by a series of snags - was a jammed solar panel. Meant to be a communication satellite, Insat 2d is placed 36,000 km above the Earth, along the 74

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