r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8h ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia’s Starlink Rival Suffers Major Satellite Launch Failure

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83502
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u/ArgentineBeauty 8h ago

Ahh, that's a shame. Hopefully its attempts continue to fail.

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u/fd6270 7h ago

It used to fail. It still does, but it used to too. 

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u/snatchenvy 4h ago

RIP Mitch

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u/Krnu777 7h ago

Too bad indeed /s

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u/steve_ample 8h ago

Wonder how much money that failure cost. And of course the cascading effects on military capabilities, operations, and plans - which is the strategic point behind the project.

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u/defoggi 2h ago

At least the window industry will be booming again.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/SneakyWheeler 7h ago

Blames the British in 3 ...2 ...1

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u/Krnu777 6h ago

British shot them down from their secret base on the other side of the moon!

Oh no that was the Nazis in James Bond... still the british, ha, they must have taken over that base!!!

British Nazis!!! Just like Ukrainian Nazis!!! Everybody outside Russia is a Nazi after all!!!

/s

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u/jamesbideaux 5h ago

they would never blame the british, it's always the anglo-saxons instead.

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u/oskich 4h ago

Those damn Danes, always up to no good 😄

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u/WorstCPANA 4h ago

This is amazing, the longer we can keep Russia from getting these satellites functioning, the longer Ukraine can hold out and potentially turn this war.

I know reddit hates it - but Musk pulling starlink from russia has been HUGE for Ukrainian resistance.

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u/_Panjo 8h ago

Excellent

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u/vessel_for_the_soul 7h ago

So they never got to altitude for deployment. They deployed 16, 2 of which are coming home sooner rather than later. I think it is worse to have not reached altitude for deployment over a staggering 12.5% sat failure at this time.

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u/barktwiggs 7h ago

I love this for them.

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u/NOVA-peddling-1138 6h ago

Ah, c’mon you guys. You tasked Boris with getting a pallet of comms chips with a budget of like 5,000,000 rub ($57K). Boris hooked up with dealer in Etsy. Chips came. He’s living in a cozy beach villa in Santiago Cuba.

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u/sg19point3 3h ago

Like everything made in russia, this these too appear to be made with an axe and two left hands

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u/Krnu777 7h ago

Is there any chance one of these will crash into the Kremlin? Honest question ha ha ha

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u/yorushika893 7h ago

Soyuz launch failure? How is that even possible?

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u/J_G_E 5h ago

Oh dear. what a shame for Russia. Tragic.

but the important question is, why on (or off) earth is the article using a picture of Salyut 6 / 7 stations from the 1980's?

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u/AngrySamoan2 3h ago

Heard they used vodka as rocket fuel.

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u/KCFLYPAPER 46m ago

As usual, most comments seem to be highly political and divisive

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u/Individual-Guest-123 8h ago

How many has Elon blown up? He just blew up twenty mid sized satellites right after launch, on purpose. And several oopsies, too.

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u/EndoExo 8h ago

Starlink has over 10,000 satellites in orbit. Rassvet has fewer than 40.

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u/Wyciorek 8h ago edited 8h ago

He could afford it. Russia cannot - and there is no guarantee that their next launch attempt won't be greeted by Ukraine's "long range sanctions". I would love to get a footage of their rocket getting hit by a drone right when countdown reaches '0'.

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u/BoredCop 7h ago

Or just barely after liftoff while speed is still low. Make it the first drone intercept of a spacecraft.

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u/monorels 8h ago

Look, musk launched a network of communications satellites
that far exceeds russia's capabilities.
First, he built a rocket for it.

Compared to this technology,
russia is trying to launch satellites into space with a long stick.

Although the article mentions musk's rival, it's not true.
russia's current technological level only allows for the launch of rare,
isolated satellites into orbit, and even then, unreliably.

Meanwhile, musk launches them with the frequency of a regular bus,
and this hasn't even been announced for a long time.
Because it's become routine.

There's nothing to compare it to.

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u/BeerPoweredNonsense 7h ago

"twenty mid-sized satellites" that was on purpose, they were test articles.

When you are planning to mass-manufacture tens of thousands of items it is common to have tens - or even hundreds - of prototypes first, that are never intended to be used operationally.

That's just how manufacturing works.

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u/Southern-Host-3042 7h ago

So sad, Russia can't even launch satellites successfully. Looks like they won't be a Great power or even a regional power soon.

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u/PUNK_FEELING_LUCKY 7h ago

both can trash satelites, the orbit is not limited to one maniac.

whats even the logic here? Leon Skum shit the bed so hard it cleaned putin's?