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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on May 16, 2015, 1615 UTC

Title: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on May 16, 2015, 1615 UTC

After 5 years of development and a few launch delays, Mexico will have to wait even longer for its new series of satellites. A failure in the third stage of the Proton-M rocket led to the spacecraft crashing into the outback of Siberia just minutes after liftoff. The satellite was to be the first in a new series of communications platforms for the government.

Full article: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/mexsat-1-crashes-in-siberia-shortly-after-launch/ (http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/mexsat-1-crashes-in-siberia-shortly-after-launch/)

Title: Re: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: Pigmeat on May 19, 2015, 2250 UTC

The Mexicans should have went with those guys in Ensenada that put that killer whale on the moon back in 2004.

Title: Re: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: Nella F. on May 19, 2015, 2333 UTC

                    :o  www.space.com/topics/space-junk-orbital-debris-news/ (http://www.space.com/topics/space-junk-orbital-debris-news/)   ::)

Title: Re: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: Pigmeat on May 20, 2015, 0417 UTC

I didn't see a thing about that whale, Nella.

Title: Re: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: Nella F. on May 20, 2015, 2336 UTC

How's this: www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gray-whale-dead-half-moon-bay-20150519-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gray-whale-dead-half-moon-bay-20150519-story.html)

Gotta admit it's close...no cigar perhaps.  8)

Title: Re: MEXSAT-1, OR CENTENARIO, CRASHES IN SIBERIA SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
Post by: Pigmeat on May 22, 2015, 1329 UTC

I've been trying to get Fansome to go into the whale oil business for a year. Now they're beaching themselves practically in his boyhood backyard.

That guy has a blind spot when it comes to whaling.