Posted on 12/30/2021 8:09:36 AM PST by 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.”
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What’s in the “dummy payload” Vlad?
Thank you. That’s a new stream from the dude we were watching last night.
That’s an old stream unfortunately.
Did it lock up last night?
I‘ve just been glancing at it a few times a day because I have time to waste.
The videos of the rocket disasters are somewhat disturbing.
Okay, well any new streams would be nice.
This is what that one guy had on streaming vid last night, but it will not complete the load for me. Maybe too much traffic.
https://www.n2yo.com/?s=50505
It’s like expecting to win lotto. An aircraft drops a brick and of all the people on earth, it hits YOU!
Keep a weather eye on the sky. I mean I am actually thinking of building a bunker next summer in the back yard.LOL.
That site knows my location.
Cool.
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