A RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT IS STRANDED IN LOW EARTH ORBIT

futurism.com ^ | 12/29/2021 | Tony Tran

[BenLurkin]

Roscosmos, Russia’s state space agency, launched its Angara A5 rocket as part of a demonstration on Monday, NASASpaceflight.com reports. The spacecraft was headed towards graveyard orbit, a region of space around Earth where satellites are typically directed to at the end of their operational life.

Before the rocket could reach its final destination, though, its upper stage engine failed two seconds into its second burn. This left the rocket and its dummy payload stranded in very low Earth orbit.

The rocket is actually so low that it’s now expected to go through an uncontrolled reentry, according to some experts.

Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tweeted that the mass of the rocket and payload weighs “around four tons” in all “so some bits may reach Earth surface.”

[BenLurkin]

[bgill]

What goes up, must come down.

[gr8eman]

It is impossible to be “stranded” in an LEO. Dictionary please!

[martin_fierro]

From the people who brought you Chernobyl

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It was only supposed to be a three hour tour.

[dfwgator]

It was only supposed to be a three hour tour.

....a three hour tour.

[dfwgator]

"Andrei, you lost *another* spacecraft?"

[reintarnation]

It’s a test to see how many Starlink satellites they can knock out in the future.

[GaltAdonis]

".....is impossible to be “stranded” in an LEO..."

If you take into account the rotation of the earth, the rotation of
our solar system around the core of the Milky Way galaxy,
and the constantly expanding universe -

Isn't it technically impossible to be stranded anywhere?
Eh?

And just where is here anyway?

[martin_fierro]

lolski

[GingisK]

There you go, spraying my screen.

[Mr. K]

LOL! That’s one of my favorite scenes in that movie.

[SIDENET]

launched its Angara A5 rocket as part of a demonstration on Monday,

That's some demonstration there, guys.

(golf clap)

[PIF]

That and the FAA shutting down the SpaceX’s Starship ...

[whitney69]

“Isn’t it technically impossible to be stranded anywhere?”

True. It’s just that they are stranded everywhere anywhere can exist.

wy69

[Sirius Lee]

LEO = slow slow re-entry, then suddenly all at once.

[martin_fierro]

Pronounced, "Duh"

[farming pharmer]

If you take into account the rotation of the earth, the rotation of our solar system around the core of the Milky Way galaxy, and the constantly expanding universe -...

Mind blowing, and this is just our little piece of property.

[RckyRaCoCo]

“diplomatic immunity”

[Sirius Lee]

That graphic reminds me of running on the trails during deer fly season.