{"id":16124,"date":"2017-12-28T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:26:23","slug":"russian-satellite-lost-after-being-set-to-launch-from-wrong-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/russian-satellite-lost-after-being-set-to-launch-from-wrong-spaceport\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian satellite lost after being set to launch from wrong spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nDeputy prime minister admits programmers gave the $45m device coordinates for Baikonur rather than Vostochny cosmodrome<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the loss of a 2.6bn-rouble ($45m) satellite launched last month was due to an embarrassing programming error.<\/p>\n<p>Russian space agency Roscosmos said last month it had lost contact with the newly launched weather satellite \u2013 the Meteor-M \u2013 after it blasted off from Russia\u2019s new Vostochny cosmodrome in the country\u2019s far east.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Rossiya 24 state TV channel, Rogozin said the failure had been caused by human error. The rocket carrying the satellites had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, he said, saying it had been given bearings for take-off from a different cosmodrome \u2013 Baikonur \u2013 which Moscow leases from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rocket was really programmed as if it was taking off from Baikonur,\u201d said Rogozin. \u201cThey didn\u2019t get the coordinates right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rocket was carrying 18 smaller satellites belonging to scientific, research and commercial companies from Russia, Norway, Sweden, the US, Japan, Canada and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Vostochny spaceport, laid out in the thick taiga forest of the Amur region, is the first civilian rocket launch site in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In April last year, after delays and massive costs overruns, Russia launched its first rocket from Vostochny, a day after a technical glitch forced an embarrassing postponement of the event in the presence of the president, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy prime minister admits programmers gave the $45m device coordinates for Baikonur rather than Vostochny cosmodrome Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the loss of a 2.6bn-rouble ($45m) satellite launched last month was due to an embarrassing programming error. Russian space agency Roscosmos said last month it had lost contact with the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}