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  • Russian Military Satellite Fails to Separate From Booster Rocket (Iran satellite on-board failed)

    10/28/2005 5:30:29 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 50 replies · 1,375+ views
    "RIA Novosti" ^ | 28.10.2005
    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...