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RSOE EDIS is reporting an "Event into Space" and lists the country as "Other".
Originally posted by Dendro
The RSOE EDIS site has recently come to my attention and I like to check it out occasionally and I was wondering if anyone else does and if it's an acceptable source of information, because any country missing a military satellite doesn't sound promising.
Sorry to Mod if I posted this in the wrong forum, first time starting a thread.
hisz.rsoe.hu
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MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.
The Russian defence ministry confirmed that it had lost sight of the craft -- a dual-use vessel that can draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets.
The incident came just a month after President Dmitry Medvedev sacked two top space officials for a similar setback and delivered another humiliating blow to Russia's much-maligned space industry
The GLONASS system, seen as a rival to the U.S. global positioning system (GPS), has been personally spearheaded by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Originally posted by zorgon
Already posted
Event Into space. Missing militairy Satelite?
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Well it's not surprising they lost one
Originally posted by Dendro
reply to post by stumason
No, I understand that it's a representative picture like the ones they have simulating what the internet looks like. I just had never seen one that was for the satellites.
Originally posted by Dendro
No, I understand that it's a representative picture like the ones they have simulating what the internet looks like. I just had never seen one that was for the satellites.
As of 2007 September 25 (another 160 TLEs were released on this date), 2,247 pieces of debris—including whatever's left of the original payload—have been catalogued by NORAD. That makes this event the largest debris-generating event on record—far surpassing the 713 pieces cataloged when the Pegasus rocket body that launched STEP 2 exploded on 1996 June 3. NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office estimates more than 35,000 pieces of debris larger than 1 cm from this event: