• Russian Rocket Launches European Navigation Satellites Into Wrong Orbit.
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[QUOTE]A Russian-built Soyuz rocket launches Europe's first two operational Galileo navigation system satellites into space from Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Aug. 22, 2014. The satellites were ultimately left in the wrong orbit, prompting an investigation into the mishap. Source: [URL="http://m.space.com/26930-european-navigation-satellites-launch-wrong-orbit.html?cmpid=514630_20140825_30392756"]http://www.space.com/26930-european-navigation-satellites-launch-wrong-orbit.html?cmpid=514630_20140825_30392756[/URL][/QUOTE]
sabotage
welp someone had too much vodka :/
[QUOTE=laserguided;45802347]sabotage[/QUOTE] When I saw some picture of the launch I thought: isn't that a Soyuz, why would the Russians help Galileo when they're pushing Glonass so hard
[QUOTE=cra0kalo;45802369]welp someone had too much vodka :/[/QUOTE] "Sergei, where's the bottle of vodka" "Sir, you left it in the rocket again" "God damn it Sergei"
This is apparently a really big mistake, it isn't just a few kilometers off. From a source pointed to by this source, it says that they were supposed to orbit at 23500km, but they're apparently orbiting at 13700km. the inclination was also wrong (49.7 compared to 55). Must've been some systematic mistake, really.
That's not nice.
Wow, well fucking done guys.
Lol russians.
Gravity 2 marketing stunt.
It's no big deal, just end the flight and restart it. The rockets will respawn at the pad.
[QUOTE=Firefox42;45804482]It's no big deal, just end the flight and restart it. The rockets will respawn at the pad.[/QUOTE] "Revert to Launch Pad"? If we're gonna take ques from KSP, let's just send an oversized rocket with 40 boosters and use that to nudge them into the right orbit! Preferably by two pilots getting killed on the launchpad with half the rocket exploding after the second stage...
well shit, now the soyuz is starting to look unreliable please space-x hurry up and get dragon 2 ready, last thing we need is to send a bunch of cosmonauts and astronauts up to the ISS and end up in the wrong orbit
[QUOTE=Sableye;45804578]well shit, now the soyuz is starting to look unreliable please space-x hurry up and get dragon 2 ready, last thing we need is to send a bunch of cosmonauts and astronauts up to the ISS and end up in the wrong orbit[/QUOTE] Why would the Soyuz suddenly become unreliable because of this?
lets put their country into a wrong orbit
Whoever was in charge of making the proper gravity turn calculations was probably drunk on Vodka
[QUOTE=Mi-24;45802380]When I saw some picture of the launch I thought: isn't that a Soyuz, why would the Russians help Galileo when they're pushing Glonass so hard[/QUOTE] Russia sells the rockets to Arianespace.
Now Russia will use this as an excuse to 'liberate' the oppressed Russian minority in low earth orbit
Well, sabotage isn't [I]that[/I] unlikely considering what Putin thinks of the European sanctions currently targeting Russia..
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45802539]This is apparently a really big mistake, it isn't just a few kilometers off. From a source pointed to by this source, it says that they were supposed to orbit at 23500km, but they're apparently orbiting at 13700km. the inclination was also wrong (49.7 compared to 55). Must've been some systematic mistake, really.[/QUOTE] How is it even possible to fuck up so bad
I'm torn. On one hand, the Russians only supplied the rocket, everything else related to the launch trajectory was handled by ESA. On the other, this is the perfect way to sabotage it. If the rocket just blew up, that'd be a black mark on Soyuz' reliability. This way, ESA takes the fall.
This is a weird amount of emphasis to put on the fact that the rocket was Russian
[QUOTE=smurfy;45807808]This is a weird amount of emphasis to put on the fact that the rocket was Russian[/QUOTE] Especially given that the launch company was French. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace[/url]
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