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Astra 1K Communications Satellite now Space Junk

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-below dept.

bachelor#3 writes "Astra 1K, which was to replace 3 other satellites, didn't make it. Launch services were being provided by International Launch Services. Here's a timeline, from T-minus 30 minutes onwards."

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  1. Americans can do it better by tot · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I watched the launch live from Astra Vision, but I have to admit, that Americans can do failed launches more spectaculare than Russians (Challanger).

    More seriously, I am a friend and a neighbor of someone involved in this project. He is not back from Baikonur yet because the bloody French air traffic controllers are striking once again, but what I heard though his wife, he does not feel too good--six years of work down the drain just like that...