It looks like a Russian space mission failed on Tuesday, jeopardizing multiple satellites

It’s not looking good for Russia’s newest weather satellite, which was launched on Tuesday morning. 

Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, released a statement after the launch of the Meteor-M polar-orbiting weather satellite along with 18 small payloads aboard an uncrewed Soyuz 2.1b rocket, saying that it had lost contact with the weather satellite, the main payload aboard. 

While the rocket appeared to deliver its payloads to the correct intermediate orbit, according to Roscosmos, that’s where the problems began. Read more…

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