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post Oct 8 2005, 06:15 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4319596.stm

Mission control at ESA is growing increasingly concerned about the fate of Europe's ice monitoring spacecraft, Cryosat.

The Cryosat spacecraft was launched at 1902 local time today, Oct 8, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, but mission controllers have failed to receive a signal from the spacecraft.
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post Oct 8 2005, 09:46 PM
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ESA NEWS
CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

8 October 2005
Today at 21.00 CEST Mr Yuri Bakhvalov, First Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Space Centre on behalf of the Russian State Commission officially confirmed that the launch of CryoSat ended in a failure due to an anomaly in the launch sequence and expressed his regret to ESA and all partners involved.

Preliminary analysis of the telemetry data indicates that the first stage performed nominally. The second stage performed nominally until main engine cut-off was to occur. Due to a missing command from the onboard flight control system the main engine continued to operate until depletion of the remaining fuel.

As a consequence, the separation of the second stage from upper stage did not occur. Thus, the combined stack of the two stages and the CryoSat satellite fell into the nominal drop zone north of Greenland close to the North Pole into high seas with no consequences to populated areas.

An investigating commission by the Russian State authorities has been established to further analyze the reasons for the failure, results are expected within the next weeks. This commission will work in close cooperation with a failure investigation board consisting of Eurockot, ESA and Khrunichev representatives.

This information is released at the same time by Eurockot and ESA.

>> ESA only notified this all because there were a error in vehicle... I don't think that ESA could give a covering "more complete" if a error of its spacecraft <<

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http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMR3Q5Y3EE_index_0.html
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- general   Cryosat Mission Feared Lost   Oct 8 2005, 06:15 PM
- - hal_9000   I never trusted in new Russians vehicles...   Oct 8 2005, 07:15 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (hal_9000 @ Oct 8 2005, 07:15 PM)I neve...   Oct 8 2005, 08:09 PM
|- - OWW   QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 8 2005, 08:09 PM)I know tha...   Oct 8 2005, 08:38 PM
||- - Rakhir   QUOTE (OWW @ Oct 8 2005, 10:38 PM)A Molnya ro...   Oct 9 2005, 12:32 PM
||- - OWW   QUOTE (Rakhir @ Oct 9 2005, 12:32 PM)Actually...   Oct 19 2005, 12:00 PM
|- - Rakhir   QUOTE (dilo @ Oct 8 2005, 10:09 PM)I know tha...   Oct 9 2005, 12:22 PM
- - RNeuhaus   I am afraid it would be alike to ones failed launc...   Oct 8 2005, 07:22 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   The Russians have now confirmed that its upper sta...   Oct 8 2005, 08:27 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 8 2005, 10:27 PM)The...   Oct 8 2005, 08:50 PM
- - general   Two days ago, another Russian lauch failed: http:/...   Oct 8 2005, 08:58 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (general @ Oct 8 2005, 09:58 PM)Two day...   Oct 8 2005, 09:49 PM
|- - blobrana   An agency official said experts could not establis...   Oct 8 2005, 11:41 PM
- - hal_9000   Russians should apply more technology in its vehic...   Oct 8 2005, 09:02 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (hal_9000 @ Oct 8 2005, 11:02 PM)Russia...   Oct 10 2005, 12:35 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Oct 10 2005, 07:35 AM)IMHO...   Oct 10 2005, 02:51 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation...   Oct 10 2005, 03:16 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Oct 10 2005, 04:51 PM)Ru...   Oct 10 2005, 04:37 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (tty @ Oct 10 2005, 06:37 PM)Actually i...   Oct 11 2005, 12:21 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 11 2005, 07:21 AM)The ru...   Oct 11 2005, 02:25 PM
- - Adam   Well it's dead : http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SE...   Oct 8 2005, 09:43 PM
- - hal_9000   ESA NEWS CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failur...   Oct 8 2005, 09:46 PM
|- - paxdan   oh bollocks   Oct 8 2005, 09:49 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 8 2005, 08:50 PM)Rest as...   Oct 9 2005, 02:10 AM
- - Rakhir   Cryosat team desperate to rebuild http://news.bb...   Oct 10 2005, 11:10 AM
- - Rakhir   Recent tests showed that "obsolete" old ...   Oct 15 2005, 01:42 PM
- - deglr6328   astronautix: "Unfortunately, this entire seri...   Oct 15 2005, 06:00 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   I've got some -- a much more detailed account ...   Oct 15 2005, 09:06 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   The report (V.G. Perminov, "The Difficult Roa...   Oct 16 2005, 12:12 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 15 2005, 07:12 PM)Si...   Oct 16 2005, 02:51 PM
- - RNeuhaus   Bruce, Thanks for bring us the knowledge of the pr...   Oct 16 2005, 02:41 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Unfortunately, that Wikipedia article still leaves...   Oct 16 2005, 10:34 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 16 2005, 05:34 PM)Ho...   Oct 17 2005, 12:01 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Yes, I read that. (As I understand it, it's s...   Oct 17 2005, 02:52 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 16 2005, 09:52 PM)Ye...   Oct 17 2005, 02:41 PM
- - edstrick   Regarding the Mars 6 descent data. 2 sets of scie...   Oct 17 2005, 06:22 AM
- - Rakhir   Ban On Russian Rokot Launches Lifted "The ca...   Oct 26 2005, 11:35 AM


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