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on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:33AM
from the I'll-just-leave-this-here-but-it-should-have-been-there dept.
from the I'll-just-leave-this-here-but-it-should-have-been-there dept.
The European Space Agency's (ESA's) embarrassment at having two of its Galileo satnav birds land in the wrong orbit has been blamed on bad programming of the Soyuz craft that hauled the satellites aloft. Russia's Izviestia reports that an investigation of the incident found that the Soyuz's first stage did all that was asked of it. So did the second stage, but that vehicle had been programmed incorrectly.
[Izviestia reports]: http://izvestia.ru/news/575880 [In Russian]
[Google Translation]: https://translate.google.co.in/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fizvestia.ru%2Fnews%2F575880&edit-text=
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UPDATE on Galileo Launch Injection Anomaly
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(Score: 2) by mrchew1982 on Saturday August 30 2014, @06:44PM
They probably should have canceled given the current situations. I doubt that this was state sponsored, probably some engineer pissed off that he can't get certain parts or creature comforts anymore... At least that's who will be blamed!
Makes me worry about the future of the ISS. It really is a modern marvel, hate to see something happen because of a petty turf war.
We're rushing straight into Cold-War 2.0 it seems, with Ukraine serving as the modern Vietnam. I know that isn't the best comparison, Vietnam was more of a truly indigenous Civil war, but we certainly are trying to help without really getting involved...