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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. 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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  3. 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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