Shortly after the successful November 14 launch of their sixth Meridian dual use communication satellite, Moscow Mission Control lost contact. With everything. Construction workers had severed a communications cable outside the building, resulting in a Mission Control unable to send commands to any of its satellites or the Russian segment of the International Space Station. State news agency RIA Novosti originally [...]
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Sophisticated Rescue Saves AEHF-1 Satellite
Fourteen months after human error stranded US military Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite (AEHF-1) in the wrong orbit and at risk of exploding, the satellite was finally placed in its correct orbit in October 2011. A successful test completed on February 29 prepared the AEHF-1 for operations, just two months before the second AEHF satellite is scheduled to launch. “This [...]
