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Experts Fail To Establish Contact With Mozhayets-5 Satellite - Source
Moscow (SPX) Oct 31, 2005 Experts from the Russian Space Forces are continuing efforts to establish contact with the Mozhayets-5 educational satellite, an informed source with the program told RIA Novosti Friday. "When the Mozhayets-5 educational satellite was placed in orbit, an error occurred in separation of the spacecraft from the adapter," a spokesman for the Space Force, Alexei Kuznetsov, said. He said no problems had been experienced during the launch of the Mozhayets and seven foreign mini-satellites, from Russia's Plesetsk Space Center on October 27. However, experts were later unable to establish contact with the satellite. The Mozhayets-5 was designed by students of the Mozhaisk Military Space Academy to test laser-optic communications. Two similar satellites, the Mozhayets-3 and the Mozhayets-4, are already in orbit. The other satellites launched by the Kosmos-3 rocket on October 27 - the Iranian's Sina-1, China's DMC, Norway's NCube-2, the European Space Agency's SSETI Express, the United Kingdom's TopSat, Germany's UWE-1, and Japan's XI-V are all now orbiting successfully. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express
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Plesetsk, Russia (SPX) Oct 28, 2005Thursday morning at 08:52 CEST, a COSMOS-3M carrier carrying a multinational payload was launched on schedule. The rocket took off at the Plesetsk launching pad located 800 kilometers north-east of Moscow, successfully placing the RUBIN-5 microsatellite developed by OHB as well as other payloads in orbit. |
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