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Russia Blames Human Error for Loss of Angolan Satellite
Russia's recent rocket launch was programmed with the wrong point of origin:
The loss of a multi-million pound weather mapping satellite was due to programming errors, the Russian deputy prime minister has said. Dmitry Rogozin said Meteor-M had been programmed for take-off from a different space station.
Speaking to Russian state TV, he blamed "human error". "The rocket was programmed as if it was taking off from Baikonur," he told the Rossyia 24 TV channel.
In fact the rocket was actually taking off from new base Vostochny, in the east of the country.
Angola Loses Contact With First Commercial Satellite
AngoSat-1, a communications satellite built for almost $300m, was launched on Tuesday evening from the launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
It was scheduled to work for 15 years and was made to improve telecommunications in the African country. About 50 Angolan aerospace engineers were trained around the world. This crew was supposed to oversee mission from a control centre in Angola.
Earlier this year, Angola made public its long-term plan for its space programme, which envisages a steady expansion in the coming years. It is unclear how a failure of AngoSat-1 will influence that multi-year plan.
Also at Reuters.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 29 2017, @06:34PM (7 children)
Russia is accusing the US of 'direct interference' in its elections [businessinsider.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 29 2017, @06:43PM (4 children)
Just more Russian trolling. Everyone already knows that Russia's elections are rigged, most of the candidates are thrown in to make it look like a contest, and the media won't give air time to real anti-Putin candidates. A U.S. State Dept. statement is pretty indirect, especially since most Russians will never hear or care about it.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday December 29 2017, @07:33PM (1 child)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/12/25/putin-chief-critic-barred-from-running-for-president-russia/gVIR7l6cMeizsbAwkOAIkJ/story.html [bostonglobe.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by takyon on Friday December 29 2017, @07:42PM
Not sure what kind of point you thought you made with that link [archive.is] added (and it was JavaScript hell).
Putin-approved lame opposition candidates get to run. Remotely threatening candidates with strong criticism for Putin, aka Alexei Navalny [wikipedia.org], don't get to run. He'll be lucky if he isn't killed sometime before 2024.
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday December 30 2017, @01:00AM (1 child)
And after his term limit he appoints, er, lets the people vote for their substitute president while he takes a four year sabbatical to wrestle bears while shirtless.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @04:25AM
What a ridiculous comment. Everyone knows that you have to wrestle bears shirtless or you'll ruin your shirt.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 29 2017, @10:29PM (1 child)
It's just amazing how aliterate USAians are of History and how often they give their own gov't a free pass on heinous behavior. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wsws.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 30 2017, @04:28AM
So what you're saying is "We're Number 1! We're Number 1!!" We don't need to read anything to know that.