It would appear from news reports that Molnya-m has also crashed. Rodney Austin On 6/22/05, Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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