{"id":66679,"date":"2017-11-29T17:21:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-loses-first-leo-satellite-in-failed-soyuz-mission-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:21:38","slug":"telesat-loses-first-leo-satellite-in-failed-soyuz-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-loses-first-leo-satellite-in-failed-soyuz-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat Loses First LEO Satellite in Failed Soyuz Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telesat&nbsp;<\/strong>announced that the Soyuz 2 launch vehicle that was to place 19 spacecraft into orbit, including the company\u2019s first Phase 1 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, failed its mission on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The primary payload on the rocket, which lifted off from Russia\u2019s new launch complex in Vostochny at 8:41 A.M. Moscow time, was a meteorological satellite called Meteor-M 2-1. The rocket also carried 18 other satellites for companies including <strong>Spire<\/strong>, <strong>Astroscale<\/strong>, and <strong>Astro Digital<\/strong> \u2014 none of which have publicly confirmed the loss of their satellites as yet, although they are also assumed to have failed to reach their orbits.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours before the mission was expected to end, Roscosmos published a statement admitting that mission control was unable to \u201cestablish a connection [with Meteor-M 2-1] due to its absence in the target orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s <em>Interfax<\/em> news agency attributed the mission failure to a malfunction in the Fregat upper stage, which prevented it from placing its payload in the correct orbit. According to <em>Interfax<\/em>, two commissions have been set up to probe the incident, which may impact the launch of the Kanopus 5-3 and 4 satellites from Vostochny on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat&nbsp;announced that the Soyuz 2 launch vehicle that was to place 19 spacecraft into orbit, including the company\u2019s first Phase 1 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, failed its mission on Nov. 28. The primary payload on the rocket, which lifted off from Russia\u2019s new launch complex in Vostochny at 8:41 A.M. Moscow time, was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66680,"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-66679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66679"}],"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=66679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}