"You lost another satellite, Andrei?"
Posted on 05/16/2015 1:45:19 PM PDT by Lurch Addams
A glitch in a Russian space launch may have sent part of a rocket and its payload -- a satellite -- plummeting down onto southeastern Siberia, according to Russian state-run media reports. It is the second space mission failure for the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, in less than a month. And the mishap occurs on the anniversary of a similar loss in 2014.
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I thought that was last week. Sure hope one lands in my yard. I still want to sell it on eBay.
We’ve got a space program too.
It involves the space between NASA administrator’s ears.
Talk about a vacuum.
Excellent!
= :^)
I hope it doesn’t hit an Amtrak train, or we’ll have to listen to another week of “Those mean Republicans won’t fund our infrastructure”
Yea but it has nothing to make muslims feel good about themselves so it’s bad, wrong and evil.
They’ve Lost Another One?
Russia has always been known for quantity over quality.
Well at least the Russians still have a space program.
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We’re about to jump leaps and bounds over the Russians and everybody else with partial privatization. We’re already there with unmanned launches. And manned launches are within two years of happening.
SpaceX just had a successful pad abort test a little over a week ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=1_FXVjf46T8
SpaceX wouldn’t be nearly this far along if the Russians hadn’t tried to get Musk drunk and steal all his money when he tried to buy rockets from them. Thank you Russians.
The Shuttle was a dangerous and expensive dinosaur that went well past the time it should have been retired.
“Preliminary data indicate that the third stage and the Mexican satellite may fall in the Chita region. “The emergencies ministry has been notified,” Interfax news agency quoted a space agency source as saying.
A major setback for the Mexican Space Agency. Who knew they had one.
"You lost another satellite, Andrei?"
Submarine.
Taco go BOOMSKI!!!!
Yep, one phrase in english that has no russian equivalent is “safety margin”.
CC
“Russia has always been known for quantity over quality.”
True, but quantity has a quality all its own.
True, but quantity has a quality all its own.
Ir the quantity is one where's the quality?
0bamie would send a humongous crane that would destroy your street, drive and yard, saw down any trees and leave you with a large mess.
Years later, after 0 purchased it for $1.98 scrap value, Mrs0 sells it for mega bucks; because the secret service agents did such a poor job of cleaning it.
“In military affairs, quantity has a quality all its own.” — Clausewitz.
this is the Mexican satellite hat was being transported to space. last week it was a restocking of supplies to the International Space Station.
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