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| Danger, Will Robinson! | Dec 29, 2010 11:52 PM PST | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:Note to self: the next time you're going to have a space war, design ships with fewer radiator fins. =P
The end of 2010 has been a tough one for certain space industries!
- The deputy head of the Russian space agency and the deputy chief of a related Russian state-controlled rocket manufacturer have been fired over the December 5th loss of three GPS satellites: their Proton-M booster rocket failed to put them into the correct orbit, leaving them to crash into the Pacific Ocean; apparently an excessive amount of fuel had been calculated.
- An Indian GSLV rocket carrying a communication satellite exploded in spectacular fashion during launch over Christmas, with boosters breaking up and going every which way through the sky, as seen in this video; strange highlights include someone breaking into a slow clap as the rocket explodes, and the chairman of the Indian space agency explaining the cause of the cause of the cause of the malfunction in tragi-comically pedantic fashion.
- Back in April, a malfunction aboard the Galaxy 15 commercial communications satellite caused it to stop receiving control commands, which left the poor thing adrift, continuing to send out its own signals, disrupting signals from other satellites wherever it went. Nobody could stop it! But! On December 23rd, the battery back-up for its solar power panels ran out, at which point it rebooted, clearing the glitch and restoring control. Yay a happy ending in one case anyway!
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