It failed indeed, so it now appears: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_sc/solar_sail Russia: Solar Sail Suffered Engine Failure 20 minutes ago MOSCOW - The Russian space agency on Wednesday said the attempt to launch a solar sail space vehicle was not successful because the booster rocket's engine failed soon after it blasted into space. The booster failed 83 seconds after its launch from a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, the space agency said. Its spokesman, Vyacheslav Davidenko, said that "the booster's failure means that the solar sail vehicle was lost." - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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