After three previous Submarine launches of spacecraft have failed the Russians were able to have a successful launch yesterday 10/7. But this success after one day was short lived, the headline today "Experimental Russian Spacecraft Missing". Excerpt:
Moscow, Russia (AHN) – Russian authorities are searching for an experimental mini-spacecraft today, just one day after the prototype was test launched from a nuclear submarine. A Russian news agency reports that engineers have had no contact with the Demonstrator spacecraft since its launch on Friday. No signals are being received from the craft. Workers have called off their search for the night and planned to resume at daybreak.
Previous submarine launch failures included a joint Russian-U.S project attempt at deploying the first controlled flight of a solar sail.
Today news includes another Russian failure of a converted land based ICBM launch with a European Space Agency's (ESA) Cryosat satellite aboard.
The Russians did have a successful launch today of a submarine missile with a different purpose in mind.
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Lubber, we would do better not to believe all of the Russian reports of their failures and "losses." They certainly have not suddenly become enamoured with telling the world the truth and they are certainly up to sneaky stuff in the satellite/space launch realm. BTW, the U.S. has always done this as well. What do you think the Hubble telescope does for our intelligence agencies?
Vigilis, I concur the Russians have always been are lovers of good literary fiction and therefore during the Soviet era became masters of disinformation. The Russian space program has had some spectacular failures as well as successes and we should include both in any real assessment of capability.
Incompetence mixed with brilliant engineering a probable description of Russian industry.
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