Russian satellites fail to enter orbit after launch

BBC ^ | 12/05/2010 | NA

[prisoner6]

Russian satellites fail to enter orbit after launch

Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper stage rocket carrying them probably fell into the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

Officials said the satellites went off course after separating with a booster rocket from the main launch rocket.

[prisoner6]

Not sue but this may be the second such failure. When I googled I found This Story - Satellite failure leaves Russia without Glonass network from June 12, 2010.

[Doogle]

orbit interruptus

[sten]

— failed to achieve ‘orbit’ —

i hate when that happens

[DBrow]

I wonder what areas they’ll make a low pass over before falling to Earth.

[palmer]

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say Hawaii.

[cambyses]

it did not get enough fuel(vodka).

[dusttoyou]

Tube type electronics shake loose connection. Great stuff the ruskis make! Other than AK-47, we have nothing to fear from them, but never fight a land war in russia.

[ThePatrioticArtist]

[TSgt]

Glonass was planned as a rival to the US-based GPS satellite navigation system familiar to motorists all over the world. It has been developed in close conjunction with the military to ensure that Russia has its own means of collating and transmitting potentially sensitive information without using a foreign system. But almost 20 years after the plans were first unveiled the network is still some way short of providing full global coverage. In total a constellation of 24 satellites is needed and yesterday’s set was intended to bring the numbers up to full strength.

GPSki FAIL

[massgopguy]

In 1991 I saw an exhibition at the Boston Museum Of Science called “Soviet Space”. I saw more advanced technology in my grandfather’s basement in the form of his pluming and furnace. The first page of the old Cosmonaut handbook should say “thank you for dying for your country”. There is no second page.

[mvpel]

I was on a flight from Yekaterinburg to Moscow, and happened to sit next to a grizzled old aeronautical engineer. As we were approaching for landing in Moscow, he started praying - I asked him since he took part in building this kind of aircraft, shouldn’t he have confidence in his work?

He answered in broken English, “It eez because I know who ELSE help build this I not have confidence!”

[dfwgator]

launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

[cunning_fish]

C’mon. Russians do have much less fatalities in their spacecrews comparing to NASA.
Especially considering the fact their space program was more intensive.

[NerdDad]

“did not get enough fuel”

That was pretty much my take. Boris needed to put one more tank of gas in before he lit the fuse.

Should make for some good submarine “training exercises” in the Pacific to see who can recover this stuff first.