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UPDATE on Galileo Launch Injection Anomaly

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 30 2014, @04:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-just-leave-this-here-but-it-should-have-been-there dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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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  • (Score: 1) by stingraz on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:10AM

    by stingraz (3453) on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:10AM (#87790)

    Not quite sure what you mean by "the 2nd time was too much"... There was only one screw-up, both satellites were launched by the same Soyuz rocket in one launch.
    The launch was from Kourou in French Guyana, which is the ESA launch site that was only recently outfitted to be able to launch Soyuz/Fregat rockets. This was done, as a previous poster said, purely to fill an economic niche in ESA's launcher lineup, since ESA's current Ariane 5 rocket is not able to compete with Soyuz for smaller payloads, and the Ariane 4 is not in production anymore while the upcoming ESA Vega launcher, slated to fill this niche, is not available yet.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday August 31 2014, @06:19PM

    by edIII (791) on Sunday August 31 2014, @06:19PM (#87882)

    Ahhhh...

    I actually thought it was two separate launches from the news articles with a period of time between them. That was a much bigger screw up.

    Thanks for the correction.

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