The Russian Mozhayets-5 satellite \u2013 launched on a Kosmos-3M booster rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome \u2013 has failed to make its correct orbit, due to a problem when attempting to seperate from its booster rocket. <\/p>\n
Also launched from a Russian Kosmos-3M Rocket, the SSETI (Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative) satellite \u2013 built by European university students under the supervision of ESA\u2019s Education Department \u2013 has stopped communicating after just a day in orbit.\n<\/p>\n
The failure of the Mozhayets-5 comes just a few weeks after the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) CryoSat satellite was lost on October 8, due to the failure of a Russian Rokot booster.<\/font> <\/font> The optical military hardware spacecraft was launched with several smaller satellites which did manage to succesfully find their way to Orbit. <\/font> <\/font> The Iranian Sina-1, China\u2019s DMC, Norway\u2019s NCube-2, the European Space Agency\u2019s SSYTI Express, the United Kingdom\u2019s TopSat, Germany\u2019s UWE-1, and Japan\u2019s XI-V satellites are orbiting successfully.<\/font> <\/font> Speaking of the problems with SSETI, Graham Shirville, said on the AMSAT BB: \u201cWe have not heard anything from Express on UHF since last night [October 27] when the telemetry seemed to indicate a very negative power budget.<\/font> <\/font> \u201cIf it does not recover then it will be a sad end to a wonderful mission.\u201d <\/font> <\/font> Ground controllers were trying to send \u201cblind\u201d signals to the satellite in the hope of restoring communications.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Russian Mozhayets-5 satellite \u2013 launched on a Kosmos-3M booster rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome \u2013 has failed to make its correct orbit, due to a problem when attempting to seperate from its booster rocket. Also launched from a Russian Kosmos-3M Rocket, the SSETI (Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative) satellite \u2013 built by European […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}