Whoops, Russia Loses Spy Satellite

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They lost one! yup, that’s what’s happened according to Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. Apparently, a Russian military mapping satellite went missing after being lofted into orbit on Tuesday. Uncle Sam came to the rescue and found the bird flying an elliptical orbit that brought it as far as 395 miles below the altitude it should have been flying at.
Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth.
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The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designed to create a detailed three-dimensional map of the Earth and help the Russian military to locate the precise positions of various targets, was launched Tuesday on board a Rockot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia.
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The spacecraft failed to communicate with Russia’s Ground Control at a designated time but was reportedly “discovered†by U.S. space monitoring services, moving along an elliptical orbit whose lowest point brought it to within 330 kilometers (205 miles) of Earth.
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Smith was such a snivelling cowardly sly wretch that we couldn't help liking him..:)
 
Louis said:
Be careful not to fall into your home ...
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I don't care as long as I'm out at the time because it'll be my landlords problem not mine,
I'll just go and rent another place..:)
 
Could be time for the US to practise their Hunter/Killer sattellite skills...for the benefit of all nations of course!
 
No panic, mates...

Russia restores lost satellite fix.

Russian ground controllers were able to contact a satellite that is believed to be lost soon after its launch on Tuesday.

But according to an official the military satellite in an orbit different from what was intended to place.

The satellite aims to explore how the Earth and locate specific points of its surface.

The incident came after three other satellites were destroyed in a failed launch last December.

The country's president, Dmitry Medvedev, dismissed two senior officials of the space industry, whom he blamed for what happened.

bbc mundo
 
It remings me the anecdote which was actual in the time when Orbital Station "Mir" was shutting down and being replaced on ICC station:

RIA Novosti: "According to calcutations made by Ground Control computer, Orbital Station "Mir" was successfully shut down and fell exactly into designated point of the Pacific ocean.. Now we are trying to specify that designated point." :)
 
Pauloondra said:
It remings me the anecdote which was actual in the time when Orbital Station "Mir" was shutting down and being replaced on ICC station:

RIA Novosti: "According to calcutations made by Ground Control computer, Orbital Station "Mir" was successfully shut down and fell exactly into designated point of the Pacific ocean.. Now we are trying to specify that designated point." :)
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I love russian jokes...lol bring us more....
 
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