Russia Loses Contact With Newly Launched Satellite

The Russian space agency has said its Meteor-M satellite was "absent" from its expected orbit after its launch from the new spaceport of Vostochny. The blunder is just the latest to hit the ambitious cosmodrome project.


Russia's space agency Roscosmos said it was not able to contact the Meteor-M weather satellite launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome. The Tuesday launch was only the second from the new spaceport, located near the Chinese border in southern Siberia.
"All the initial stages of the rocket's flight went according to plan," Roscosmos scientists said after the takeoff.

However, scheduled attempts to communicate with the device were unsuccessful due to its "absence in the target orbit," they added.

Russian news agency Interfax quoted a Roscosmos source as saying that the fault likely lay with the Fregate booster, a part of Soyuz 2 rocket which was used to carry the satellite.
"The spacecraft is not to be found in the orbit," the source said. "At the same time, no traces of an explosion have been detected. The device might have fallen in to the Atlantic Ocean."
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Faith Kinika

this is serious I hope it was not hijack

Endy Edeson

hijacked? How possible is that?

Frank Chijioke Adeyinka

Russia and their wahala make dem no throw bomb for wold cup o

Olajide Olushola

They will find it