PapaDragon wrote:
Russian project to build moon orbiter estimated at over $33.5 million
http://tass.com/science/976140
Only $33.5M for a lunar orbiter mission? Seems very cheap.... NASA or ESA would spend that just on engineering design work.
PapaDragon wrote:
Russian project to build moon orbiter estimated at over $33.5 million
http://tass.com/science/976140
Big_Gazza wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
Russian project to build moon orbiter estimated at over $33.5 million
http://tass.com/science/976140
Only $33.5M for a lunar orbiter mission? Seems very cheap.... NASA or ESA would spend that just on engineering design work.
Big_Gazza wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
Russian project to build moon orbiter estimated at over $33.5 million
http://tass.com/science/976140
Only $33.5M for a lunar orbiter mission? Seems very cheap.... NASA or ESA would spend that just on engineering design work.
kvs wrote:These TASS articles are full of technical errors. I doubt any configuration of the single stage Soyuz-5 would be able to lift 26 tons.
And what is the BS about 3 tons being the minimum. The minimum will be higher than the 17 tons of Zenit.
Meteor satellite launched from Vostochny may be in wrong orbit, Roscosmos says
More:
http://tass.com/science/977772
Russia Loses Contact With Satellite
A weather satellite launched today from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East has not reached its designated orbit, according to Roscosmos experts who are analysing the situation now.
Russia's Meteor-M № 2-1 weather satellite, which had been launched atop a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the country's Far East on Tuesday, has failed to reach the target orbit, Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a press release.
"As a result of the work of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, the head section of the Fregat upper stage and the Meteor-M spacecraft were launched to a set interim orbit. However, during the first planned communication session with the spacecraft, connection could not be established due to its absence in the target orbit. Currently, the information is being analyzed," the press release read.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Project Canada wrote:
Meteor satellite launched from Vostochny may be in wrong orbit, Roscosmos says
More:
http://tass.com/science/977772
This is what I have been worrying since yesterday, another failure
Its only 2 things, either Nato has a powerful space weapon that can cause havoc to Russian space launches, or their technical staff on Vostochny are infiltrated by spies or simply grossly incompetent in their jobs!.
Project Canada wrote:
Russia Loses Contact With Satellite
A weather satellite launched today from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East has not reached its designated orbit, according to Roscosmos experts who are analysing the situation now.
Russia's Meteor-M № 2-1 weather satellite, which had been launched atop a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the country's Far East on Tuesday, has failed to reach the target orbit, Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a press release.
"As a result of the work of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, the head section of the Fregat upper stage and the Meteor-M spacecraft were launched to a set interim orbit. However, during the first planned communication session with the spacecraft, connection could not be established due to its absence in the target orbit. Currently, the information is being analyzed," the press release read.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
After a series of Failures for many consecutive years you'd think Roscosmos would put their crap together, But no, Nato still gets to sabotage their space program lol! ???? Stupid just stupid.
miketheterrible wrote:or maybe its a genuine fuckup? Rockets explode (Musks rockets, Challenger Spacecraft), spacecrafts don't make their intended designation, etc. Unfortunately, it sounds more like oversight than it is of the rocket itself. Oh well. It is insured and they will end up launching a new one eventually again.
PapaDragon wrote:At least they spared us the usual "we are trying to re-establish contact with vessel" bullshit (for the most part). With Fobos Grunt they ran with that crap for two whole days, this time they only did it for two hours.
Bitch when was the last time someone fixed a spacecraft by pressing buttons on the ground? Seriously asking...
miketheterrible wrote:a lot of assumptions floating around but lets see what we can gather for facts
- Proclaims from above that these people are low paid. Does anyone have official numbers of how much these workers get paid?
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Big_Gazza wrote:Looks like the cause was human error, with Fregat not properly configured for a launch from Vostochny. Un-fucking-believable.....
A navigational error doomed Vostochny launch........... But, almost unbelievably, the flight control system on the Fregat did not have the correct settings for the mission originating from the new launch site in Vostochny, as apposed to routine launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. .................
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/meteor-m2-1.html#culprit
Project Canada wrote:I highly doubt this is about gross negligence, You dont make mistakes on almost a regular basis. This is a sabotage, NATO 5th columnists have infiltrated Roscosmos and the FSB needs to wipe the slate clean asap.
PapaDragon wrote:Project Canada wrote:I highly doubt this is about gross negligence, You dont make mistakes on almost a regular basis. This is a sabotage, NATO 5th columnists have infiltrated Roscosmos and the FSB needs to wipe the slate clean asap.
It's exactly gross negligence.
NATO doesn't need 5th columnist in Roscosmos, it's cheaper to just wait for Roskosmos to inevitably do their job for them by fucking up.
Besides, why would they even bother with some two bit weather satellite?
kvs wrote:PapaDragon wrote:Project Canada wrote:I highly doubt this is about gross negligence, You dont make mistakes on almost a regular basis. This is a sabotage, NATO 5th columnists have infiltrated Roscosmos and the FSB needs to wipe the slate clean asap.
It's exactly gross negligence.
NATO doesn't need 5th columnist in Roscosmos, it's cheaper to just wait for Roskosmos to inevitably do their job for them by fucking up.
Besides, why would they even bother with some two bit weather satellite?
Do you really think that the workers involved have such contempt for their jobs that they would miss this critical technical aspect?
You clearly do not know anything about working in an engineering/science environment. There would have been a specific task created
to adjust the launch origin parameters and people assigned to changing the software since it is, like, as important as having functional
rocket engines. They test rocket engines but don't account for launch geometry? Take a hike.
This is a clear case of sabotage since the correct launch software was replaced with an old version. It would only seem like a likely
"mistake" for the average media consumer sap.
The negligence would be not having 24/7 video surveillance of all the terminals with access to onboard computers. This would have
caught the perp 100% and, in fact, would likely prevented this sabotage ploy in the first place.
PapaDragon wrote:
Anyone who thinks that this is some sabotage is just butthurt fanboy. There are more important things to sabotage than this crap.
AMK wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
Anyone who thinks that this is some sabotage is just butthurt fanboy. There are more important things to sabotage than this crap.
I mostly share your opinion on this. But on the other hand, yeah, there are much more important things to sabotage out there, but what if there are preconditions which make sabotaging Roscosmos particularly easy? So why not, what is stopping "them"? Just thinking out loud here...
PapaDragon wrote:AMK wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
Anyone who thinks that this is some sabotage is just butthurt fanboy. There are more important things to sabotage than this crap.
I mostly share your opinion on this. But on the other hand, yeah, there are much more important things to sabotage out there, but what if there are preconditions which make sabotaging Roscosmos particularly easy? So why not, what is stopping "them"? Just thinking out loud here...
Blaming these crashes on some phantom American sabotage is space equivalent of blaming Russian hackers for Hilary Clinton's election defeat.
It's retarded.
kvs wrote:PapaDragon wrote:AMK wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
Anyone who thinks that this is some sabotage is just butthurt fanboy. There are more important things to sabotage than this crap.
I mostly share your opinion on this. But on the other hand, yeah, there are much more important things to sabotage out there, but what if there are preconditions which make sabotaging Roscosmos particularly easy? So why not, what is stopping "them"? Just thinking out loud here...
Blaming these crashes on some phantom American sabotage is space equivalent of blaming Russian hackers for Hilary Clinton's election defeat.
It's retarded.
Proof by assertion. Got ya. We should all bow in your presence to your infinite knowledge.
Bugger off.