Six Russian Satellites Lost

mwillems writes "CNN reports that six Russian satellites were just lost after a third-stage booster rocket failed to ignite. More Russian embarassment, and bad for space travel."

Russia's failures, real and illusionary

[wozzeck_berg]

Does Russia really need to take a step back from space? Besides this most recent incident the only "failure" of theirs in recent memory has been Mir. Mir itself is not even that much of a failure considering it was built so long ago. It is a joke to believe that an American space station built at the same time would not suffer the same fate. The media, so caught up in it's propaganda wars, is only too happy to comment profusely on Russia and it's space based failures. But do they make more than a cursory remark when America suffers similar fate? A few years back we lost a $5 million satellite. Skylab had problems. DS1 is a mess and the new Space Station is horribly behind schedule. Were these on the evening news? Not so much, but Mir certainly was. Again. If anyone has a "horrible inferiority conplex" (sic)--Anonymous, it is us for not facing our failures and needing so badly to embarass an old foe.

maybe...

[enrico_suave]

Maybe Sean Connery took them?

E.

To much junk in space anyway...

[azephrahel]

Good. Not to be to cynical, but there is just to much junk in orbit around the earth anyway. What somone needs to do is put up some garbage collectors and make some sort of spacehulk out there. A space station out of the junk. But what they shouldn't do is clutter space up worse than new jersy. You can't build new buildings when half your state is a garbage dump (ok sorry to all you folk in NJ)

Just my random 2 cents.

Bad for Space Image, Good for People

[Bonker]

While a loss like this certainly delivers a nice, firm kick in the balls to the the image of space travel and exploration, its damn nice to see that governments and space agencies are making their mistakes with machines instead of live subjects.

What else is new?

[laserfreak]

My subject says it all. Look at Mir. I also hate to be brutal and frank, but it's just that if the Russians are going to go into space they need to get someone else to build the vehicle.

the part they didn't tell ya..

[ueriah]

the rockets just "failed" to work? or maybe they have footage of some ten mile long space creature pulling them into it's many rows of slavering teeth before leaving orbit in search of tastier food... some dude was watching the footage, saw this, went pale, and was like... "uh... yeah. the rockets didn't work." hehe

Nostraslashdot?

[sparcv9]

What an apt tagline at the bottom of the /. page today...

"Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department." -- Werner von Braun