2 posted on
08/19/2011 9:24:02 PM PDT by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: Libloather
These are the guys American astronauts are going to be hitching a ride into space with. Yikes!
3 posted on
08/19/2011 9:26:47 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
To: Libloather
5 posted on
08/19/2011 9:32:31 PM PDT by
NYTexan
To: Libloather
6 posted on
08/19/2011 9:33:28 PM PDT by
wastedyears
(SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
To: Libloather
It's a missed shot. We all do it.
The Russians are pretty good at sending things into orbit, they've been doing it well for around 50 years.
7 posted on
08/19/2011 9:34:18 PM PDT by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Libloather
Hum, lets see if I can make sense of this:
1. A $300 million Russian telecommunications satellite probably paid for by dumb-ass U.S. taxpayers.
2. Got lost in space for a brief moment until dumb-ass U.S. taxpayer radar system tracked it in the wrong orbit leading to. . .
3. The conclusion that Russian technology is far superior to anything the dumb-ass U.S. taxpayer could ever achieve.
4. Hiel Obama!
8 posted on
08/19/2011 9:35:22 PM PDT by
ArchAngel1983
(Arch Angel- on guard / Still Think You're Free?)
To: Libloather
Lost Russian Communications Satellite Found in Wrong Orbit Is it a secret Satellite?
No mention of what the Express-AM4 was launched to accomplish. It is quite a heavy one, though.
9 posted on
08/19/2011 9:35:31 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
To: Libloather
IIRC, there was a satellite some years ago with a similar problem. It was rescued by sending it around the Moon and then back to Earth in a geostationary orbit.
12 posted on
08/19/2011 9:57:19 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Libloather
Well, somebody is glad that they bought launch insurance.
Somebody else is going to make a very big payout.
Many years ago, a friend of mine spent years as part of a team assembling a low-Earth-orbit communications satellite. Less than a minute after launch, the satellite ended up in the Pacific Ocean instead of in orbit. It is a devastating thing to happen after putting in so much effort.
14 posted on
08/19/2011 10:09:22 PM PDT by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Libloather
16 posted on
08/19/2011 10:49:26 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Libloather
Dude...Where's my satellite?
19 posted on
08/19/2011 11:14:49 PM PDT by
Tainan
(Cogito, Ergo Conservitus.)
To: Libloather
the U.S. Space Surveillance Network had located the Express-AM4 satellite, saying it was in an orbit with an apogee of 20,317 kilometers, a perigee of 1,007 kilometers and an inclination relative to the equator of 51.3 degrees.
What did we charge the Russians for finding their lost satellite?
22 posted on
08/19/2011 11:42:07 PM PDT by
andyk
(Income != Wealth)
To: Libloather
I would never trust an agency with a name like Roscos Mos.
It sounds too much like “Joe’s Rockets and Stuff”.
23 posted on
08/20/2011 12:05:21 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Libloather
To be honest Russians are launching much more stuff into space than NASA ever could, so shit happends more often as well. Their space program is much more extensive, and it is pretty advanced. You can’t imagine how much Russian tech NASA is using.
To: Libloather
Homeric Simpsoninski had no effective translation for “doh”.
29 posted on
08/20/2011 2:55:41 AM PDT by
allmost
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