Posted on 10/28/2005 5:30:29 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
The Russian military satellite Mozhayets-5 that was launched on Thursday failed to separate from its booster rocket Kosmos-3M.
The satellite is currently rotating in a near-earth orbit with the booster’s third stage and is sending no signals to Earth.
Officials say there was no emergency situation during the launch. All the other seven satellites were orbited successfully.
The booster was launched from the Plesetsk space center. The rocket also carried the Iranian Sina-1, China’s DMC, Norway’s NCube-2, the European Space Agency’s SSYTI Express, the UK’s TopSat, Germany’s UWE-1, and Japan’s XI-V.
The launch of the Chinese-origin Sina had been twice postponed because of technical difficulties. Sources said Iran failed to complete the Sina on schedule.
The problems with Mozhayets-5 follow the loss of a high-profile European space vehicle earlier this month and other recent failures which have made this month one of the most troublesome periods for the nation’s space program.
The European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite was lost on Oct. 8 due to the failure of a Russian Rokot booster, dealing a major blow to the ESA, which had hoped to conduct a three-year mapping of Earth’s polar ice caps and provide more reliable data for the study of global warming.
Also this month scientists failed to recover another experimental space vehicle and lost contact with a Russian Earth-monitoring satellite.
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It is the will of Allah.
perhaps
Gee...that's too bad.
Wait a minute.. if "all the other seven satellites were orbited successfully", that would include the Iranian Sina-1. Thus the title claim "Iranian satellite on-board failed" is not supported by the posted information. If it was placed in the wrong orbit - then yes, but that info is not given.
This was Iran's first satellite. Made in China, launched with a Russian booster. Bet they are proud of it.
I cried when I read this.
Allah FUBAR!
Dang. Low bidder, NSA ping.
All the other seven satellites were orbited successfully.
The rocket also carried the Iranian Sina-1, China’s DMC, Norway’s NCube-2, the European Space Agency’s SSYTI Express, the UK’s TopSat, Germany’s UWE-1, and Japan’s XI-V.
You've appended to the article's title "(Iran satellite on-board failed)". The posted article does not support your claim. The article claims that Sina-1 was orbited successfully.
The article link as provided does not mention any failure...???
The Russian military satellite Mozhayets-5 that was launched on Thursday failed to separate from its booster rocket Kosmos-3M.
The satellite is currently rotating in a near-earth orbit with the booster’s third stage and is sending no signals to Earth.
Officials say there was no emergency situation during the launch. All the other seven satellites were orbited successfully.
The booster was launched from the Plesetsk space center. The rocket also carried the Iranian Sina-1, China’s DMC, Norway’s NCube-2, the European Space Agency’s SSYTI Express, the UK’s TopSat, Germany’s UWE-1, and Japan’s XI-V.
The launch of the Chinese-origin Sina had been twice postponed because of technical difficulties. Sources said Iran failed to complete the Sina on schedule.
The problems with Mozhayets-5 follow the loss of a high-profile European space vehicle earlier this month and other recent failures which have made this month one of the most troublesome periods for the nation’s space program.
The European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite was lost on Oct. 8 due to the failure of a Russian Rokot booster, dealing a major blow to the ESA, which had hoped to conduct a three-year mapping of Earth’s polar ice caps and provide more reliable data for the study of global warming.
Also this month scientists failed to recover another experimental space vehicle and lost contact with a Russian Earth-monitoring satellite.
That would indicate to me that the "is" may soon be "was".
Why would any one trust the Russians with satelites? Read James Oberg's "Red Star in Orbit" and "Testing the Limits of Glasnost, Uncovering Soviet Disasters", to get a taste of how primitive the Russian space program was and still is..
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