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A big failed Russian rocket just came crashing back to Earth out of control:
A Russian rocket fell to a watery resting place on Wednesday after an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
The Persei booster was launched on Dec. 27 by the heavy-lift Angara-A5 rocket for a test mission. However, the upper-stage booster failed to enter the Earth's orbit as planned. Instead, it began inevitably being pulled back toward the atmosphere by Earth's gravity for an expected return to the surface in bits and pieces (if at all) on Wednesday afternoon, Pacific time.
[...] "I do NOT regard this object as a significant risk," leading orbit watcher and astronomer Jonathan McDowell said on Twitter. "Reentries for a object with dry mass of about 4 tonnes may see some debris reach the ground, but not much."
The rocket is thought to have weighed around 20 tons, but over 75% of that mass would have been in fuel that almost certainly would have burned up in the atmosphere.
The 18th Space Control Squadron of the US Space Force confirmed that the rocket reentered over the Pacific Ocean just after 1 p.m. PT on Wednesday.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @04:01PM (10 children)
My Big Failed Russian Rocket
If this doesn't sound like an Adam Sandler movie, I don't know what does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @04:06PM
Red Rocket was recently released.
Relatively unknown cast; no Adam.
(Score: -1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:07PM (8 children)
It's a movie written by democrats:
My Big Bad Failed Russian Rocket
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:31PM (7 children)
?? I don't get the "joke." What do the democrats have to do with this? The only US political jokes that have to do with Russia most certainly don't have to do with the democrats.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @08:14PM (5 children)
Because some Democrats pointed out that Russian interests help elect dumbo and Republicans can't handle the idea they were duped by a country they considered the enemy. Also explains their unexpected change of heart where Russia became best buds for 4 years. Wild times, it was very shocking to see the GOP suddenly get friendly with Russia even sending some prominent pols over on July 4th one year. So mentioning Russia now triggers them to blame Dems, cuz Rs are nothing if not consistent in their projectng their issues on others.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @11:59PM (4 children)
More precisely, the Democrat party lied during Trump's entire presidency (before he even took office) by referring to a dossier Hillary Clinton had describing intel about how Trump was completely compromised by Russian agents. They referred to this for years. It turns out to have been 100% bullshit after it was officially investigated by the Federal govt. They traced the author of this dossier as a liar paid by Hillary Clinton to provide this dossier. All of the claims made were found to be fake. Hillary commissioned this fictional writing right at the time it was discovered that she had been using a personal email server instead of her govt one to host classified info so as to evade the scrutiny mandated by law for govt records. When found out, she immediately erased all the email evidence and was never charged for this major breech of security and released the Russian dossier to throw media attention off her crime and create a new scandal (made up) about her opponent in the presidential election.
The fact that the parent commenter mentions this debunked Russian "evidence" as if it were true shows that a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth to those who want to believe it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Joe Desertrat on Monday January 10 2022, @12:26AM (3 children)
Some documentation please. Of pretty much every claim in your statement, the existence of said dossier, Hillary claiming to have it, Democrats referring to it, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 10 2022, @02:25AM (1 child)
These events and facts are all public information, esp. the findings of the federal investigator.
You can google it all.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 10 2022, @04:26AM
No, most of what you claim are not "facts" outside of Fox News. They are unsubstantiated statements, or at least the ones not shown to be outright lies. You also don't need a dossier when you have people like Flynn and Kushner directly meeting with the Russians for the purposes of getting "dirt."
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 10 2022, @05:58PM
That last point is significant because once they had surveillance of Page, they could get information to get surveillance on others. From the "significant component" link above (a report by US Inspector General Michael Horowitz):
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 10 2022, @04:48AM
Russia is the scapegoat for all democrat losses in an election, and now, while the dems are in charge, Russia is responsible for everything else that they (the dems) screw up.
And now, the democrat mod squad will entertain me with more downmods...
(Score: 1, Redundant) by crafoo on Sunday January 09 2022, @05:05PM (3 children)
The big rocket worked fine. The upper stage failed to re-light to get to it's designated orbit.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Sunday January 09 2022, @08:31PM (2 children)
Pretty sure they refer to the entire stack, i.e. all the booster stages collectively, as "the rocket." So yes, if the first stage works and the second stage doesn't fire, "the rocket failed."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 10 2022, @03:47PM
The first and second stages both worked fine. It was the third stage (Persei tug) that failed. Had the tug been supplied by a different company, as is often the case, this would have been counted as a successful launch.
https://spacenews.com/angara-upper-stage-reenters-after-failed-launch/ [spacenews.com]
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday January 10 2022, @05:21PM
Let's not forget "successful rocket landings" by Mask.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @05:25PM
Wednesday...
Three days ago...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @06:33PM (4 children)
...this was the universal outcome of just about any orbital launch.
This only started being noticed when Skylab fell over Australia (landing in pieces in the wilderness), and the Russian satellite with radioactive components that fell over Canada (landing in pieces in the wilderness).
It's only the Communist Chinese who put people at real risk from failing launches.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:18PM (3 children)
It landed in the Ocean for Goddess sake. Just like almost every other booster rockect, defunct satellite, and decommissioned space station that has ever fallen to Earth.
Seems more like that only time anyone mentions it is when it's a rocket or such from any non-Western aligned nation. When was the last time anyone heard about a US booster falling as expected into the ocean?
But no, because it was Russian it gets a click bait headline that stirs up FUD.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:33PM
Yup. A big nothing.
Unlike the multiple times the Chinese dropped booster rockets on their own people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:34PM
It's news when it is unplanned/uncontrolled, just like it is news when one goes off course and has to be blown up.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @07:38PM
"Goddess' sake" and defending Russians? You're pretty sus, gigglybro.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by tangomargarine on Sunday January 09 2022, @06:40PM (5 children)
What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Like that one Hitchhiker's Guide book where Arthur Dent learns to fly by falling and missing the ground?
It's going to inevitably hit the surface one way or the other; just staying floating in the air somewhere isn't an option.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @08:22PM
Some things burn up on reentry, but agreed on weird wording.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 09 2022, @08:47PM (1 child)
lucky it did not turn into a bowl of pettunias then, that would have got you really riled.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 10 2022, @12:00AM
Oh no, not again.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday January 12 2022, @12:38AM (1 child)
That was a direct quote from original story [cnet.com].
Maybe you want to take it up with the author [cnet.com]?
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday January 12 2022, @02:18AM
Is that supposed to surprise me? Yes, I have an issue with the original author.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"