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Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof

Posted by samzenpus on from the return-to-sender dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was launched Friday from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia on board a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket crashed near the Siberian city of Tobolsk minutes after lift-off. A titanium ball of about five kg fell on to the roof of a house in Ordyn district."

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  1. In Soviet Russia... by Megane · · Score: 2, Informative

    YOU find satellite!

    (Damn kids trying to do ISR memes these days, get off my lawn.)

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  2. Re:Does he get to keep it? by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here in the U.S.(and within a few miles of where I was working when it happened!) a military pilot student bailed from his malfunctioning F-18, leaving it crashing into 2 houses and almost singlehandedly wiping out a family.

    The military offered them an undisclosed sum, probably a few million bucks, and they said, "Fuck you, we want 56 million, see your asses in court." And they'll probably get at least half of that considering the string of errors led to the crash.

  3. Commercial lift services have to be reliable by msobkow · · Score: 3, Informative

    With the age of their lift system, you'd think the Russians would have the kinks ironed out by now. I can understand something new like their Mars mission failing, but five commercial launches in a year?

    Those payloads are far too expensive and time consuming to trust to a lift provider with such a poor track record.

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  4. Re:There is an important piece of information miss by Reservoir+Penguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some corrections since it fell near where I live and a lot of people got to observe the fiery trail we thought it was a plane actually)

    1) It crashed in Ordyn district of Novosibirsk region, not Tobolsk which is to the west.
    2) There is a Cosmanauts street in nearly every Russian town and from what I hear fragments were discovered all over Ordynsk, so the irony is a bit misplaced here.
    I'm too concerned about apparently poor quality control with recent launches. I agree that it's most likely due to loss of experience due to aging workforce.

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