Russia Loses Contact With Newly Launched Satellite… Again
By Kendall Russell | December 27, 2017
AngoSat 1 during the integration phase. Photo: RSC Energia.
Russia promptly lost contact with Angola’s first telecommunications satellite after launching it from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 26. This comes just weeks after a similar incident in November, when Russia lost contact with a weather satellite it launched from a new complex in Vostochny. The question now is: do these subsequent failures hint at deep troubles within Russia’s space industry?
